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midnight oil
Idioms and Phrases
see burn the midnight oil .Example Sentences
“My staff is burning the midnight oil for a month now,” McGuire said.
That’s 02:00 GMT for those in the UK now burning the midnight oil.
The midnight oil was ignited, but it didn't need to burn for long.
They have been burning the midnight oil in the last week to try to figure out what they have not understood, so it will be interesting to see how they get on in Melbourne this weekend.
Trump’s White House staff would not be the first to burn the midnight oil by getting lit on the mother-of-all-uppers, that premium twitch fuel called modafinil — or its brand-name version, Provigil.
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