Day job meaning in English

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Definition

What is your day job?: What do you do? What do you work as? What is your main job? idiom

Examples

  • "Everyone : "Don't Give Up Your Day Job"!"
  • "You'd better be good though, if not, our expert judge is likely to say: "Don't Give Up Your Day Job"!"
Exercise 1
If the audience tells a performer "Don't give up your day job!", it means that:
If the audience tells a performer "Don't give up your day job!", it means that:
This is the correct answer. The expression "don't give up your day job" means "you should not stop your regular work to try to become a star", and implies that you are not very talented! Here's an example of the sentence in use: "-What do you think of Philip's singing? -He shouldn't give up his day job!".
This is the opposite meaning of "don't give up your day job".

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