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The prevailing or expected mode, the current agenda, as in Volatility is the order of the day in high-tech stocks , or T-shirts and blue jeans were the order of the day for the picnic . This expression, dating from the late 1600s, originally alluded to the subject of debate in a legislature on a particular day, as well as to specific commands given to troops. Its figurative use dates from the second half of the 1700s.Advertisement
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