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take each day as it comes/take it one day at a time

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to deal with things as they happen, and not to make plans or to worry about the future: I've lived through a lot of changes recently, but I've learned to take each day as it comes.Planning, expecting and arrangingPlotting and trapping
(Definition of take each day as it comes/take it one day at a time from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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