nine-to-five in English
a nine-to-five job
‘I've done nine-to-fives and there's nothing wrong with them ’, Gervais says, ‘but you don't live to work: you live for the evenings and weekends, and have other ambitions’.
Use "nine-to-five" in a sentence
1. JJ, this is not a nine-to-five job.
2. He felt fettered by a nine-to-five office existence.
3. The old man quit his nine-to-five and set up a Bookstand on the town square
4. She'd had a typical nine-to-five job in the civil service before she worked in the theatre.
5. Shop women’s designer Blazers online at Bloomingdale’s today, and embrace style that goes from nine to five — and beyond.
6. This was an economic version of an open marriage where one party gets to have all the fun and the other worked nine-to-five and came home too exhausted for whoopee.