"as the day is long" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "as the day is long",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, Mark Twain, chapter 54, in Roughing It",
          "text": "They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Horatio Alger, chapter 4, in Joe The Hotel Boy",
          "text": "\"Oh, I don't think they would steal the box. Bart Andrews and Jack Thompson are as honest as the day is long.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Brian Buckner and Sebastian Jones, Friends, season 9, ep. 17 The One with the Memorial Service",
          "text": "Monica: Alright, wait a second! Why would Ross tell everyone in your class that you are \"as gay as the day is long\"?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 October 16, G. Caulkin, B. Glanville, “Souness eyes move to take Duff back on board”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 2009-09-06",
          "text": "He is direct, honest as the day is long, hard-working and a good lad to have around.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unceasingly; very; thoroughly; to a very high degree."
      ],
      "id": "en-as_the_day_is_long-en-phrase-OhAOiWV5",
      "links": [
        [
          "Unceasingly",
          "unceasingly"
        ],
        [
          "very",
          "very"
        ],
        [
          "thoroughly",
          "thoroughly"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intensifier, simile) Unceasingly; very; thoroughly; to a very high degree."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "all day"
        },
        {
          "word": "all the livelong day"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "for days"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "emphatic",
        "idiomatic",
        "intensifier"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-as the day is long.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-au-as_the_day_is_long.ogg/En-au-as_the_day_is_long.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-au-as_the_day_is_long.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "as the day is long"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "as the day is long",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "all day"
    },
    {
      "word": "all the livelong day"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "English similes",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, Mark Twain, chapter 54, in Roughing It",
          "text": "They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Horatio Alger, chapter 4, in Joe The Hotel Boy",
          "text": "\"Oh, I don't think they would steal the box. Bart Andrews and Jack Thompson are as honest as the day is long.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Brian Buckner and Sebastian Jones, Friends, season 9, ep. 17 The One with the Memorial Service",
          "text": "Monica: Alright, wait a second! Why would Ross tell everyone in your class that you are \"as gay as the day is long\"?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 October 16, G. Caulkin, B. Glanville, “Souness eyes move to take Duff back on board”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 2009-09-06",
          "text": "He is direct, honest as the day is long, hard-working and a good lad to have around.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unceasingly; very; thoroughly; to a very high degree."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unceasingly",
          "unceasingly"
        ],
        [
          "very",
          "very"
        ],
        [
          "thoroughly",
          "thoroughly"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intensifier, simile) Unceasingly; very; thoroughly; to a very high degree."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "emphatic",
        "idiomatic",
        "intensifier"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-as the day is long.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-au-as_the_day_is_long.ogg/En-au-as_the_day_is_long.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-au-as_the_day_is_long.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "for days"
    }
  ],
  "word": "as the day is long"
}