take it/things day by day

idiom

: to make progress in a slow and careful way by dealing with each day as it comes

He hopes to make a full recovery after his surgery, but right now he's just taking it day by day.

I don't know if our relationship is going to work out. I'm taking things day by day at this point.

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And that’s important, to just take it day by day and minute by minute, hour by hour, and live our lives like that. —Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 22 May 2021