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two days engineered to feel like four hours.
means The two days at the end of the week — typically Saturday and Sunday — set aside from work for rest and leisure.
from A transparent compound of "week" and "end," first recorded in English in the late 19th century. The word grew up alongside the thing itself: as industrial labor patterns shifted and Saturday afternoons (then full Saturdays) were freed from work, a name was needed for that protected stretch of time. "Week" descends from Old English "wice"; "end" from Old English "ende" — both ancient Germanic words, here yoked together to mark the boundary where the working week stops.
- recent invention
- Five-day workweek went mainstream only in the 1920s
- ford's gambit
- Henry Ford gave Saturdays off to sell more cars
- not universal
- Many Muslim countries rest Friday-Saturday instead
- sunday dread
- Anxiety peaks Sunday evening, science confirms it
- origin word
- English term first recorded in late 1800s
saturday night live — nbc's live sketch comedy show that premiered in 1975 and airs every saturday at 11:30 pm
weekend at bernie's — 1989 comedy film about two men pretending their dead friend is alive over a weekend
the weekend — canadian musician the weeknd's stage name, grammy award-winning artist since 2011