by the day

The cleaner-by-the-day will do the grubby things and I shall like it.

But Margaret-by-the-day proved an interesting game, if it did slip a cog or two in its development.

This had been altered so often, Grace proposed following Margaret's plan of "fun-by-the-day."

Me, Tommy-by-the-Day the baby echoed, patting his chest with one pudgy hand.

There is a cook and a cleaner-by-the-day, and the new maid-companion, so she should be reasonably well looked after.