nine-to-five in English

adjective
1
used in reference to typical hours of work in an office, often to express an idea of routine or predictability.
a nine-to-five job
noun
1
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’.

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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.