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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Now that the NFL playoffs have the football commentators and fans talking about the difference between a good season and a good game, ‘week in and week out’ is a go-to phrase. I’ve heard and read “weekend and week out” several times. Not always in reference to football but most commonly regarding sports.
In football the semantic motivation is pretty clear because of the typical schedule. In other contexts it’s harder to see why “weekend” makes sense. But it could be influenced by an idea like ‘at one point and then throughout the week.’
A few examples:
but we still don’t hit consistent enough to win weekend and week out
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Clearly the SEC is killing itself by beating up on each other weekend and week-out.
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No one who looks at the packers games weekend and week out believes that the youngest team in the NFL have anywhere near peeked performance wise
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Last edited by mcovarru (2008-01-13 15:55:58)
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Wow… This one is a puzzle to me. I realize weekend is more familiar than “week in,” but you would think the writer/speaker would get the opposing ideas of “week in” and “week out.” As you point out, maybe the user is differentiating the weekend from the week, though where the “out” part comes in, I can’t quite see.
I also think spoken dialect must be at work here… In some American dialects, weekend probably is pronounced “week-in.”
Feeling quite combobulated.
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certainly week_ind_ occurs in some dialects.
And maybe the ‘out’ comes from a loose analogy with phrases like ‘from here on out’ or ‘wait it out’ that use ‘out’ with a sense of progression.
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