burn the midnight oil
Verb
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Verb
burn the midnight oil
- (idiomatic) To work studiously, especially late into the night.
- He was burning the midnight oil to finish his paper.
- She was burning the midnight oil to finish her part of the project.
- candlewasting
- French: travailler tard#French|tard le#French|le soir, bûcher
- Italian: fare le ore piccole, passare la notte in bianco
- Portuguese: passar a noite em claro, virar a noite, fazer uma direta
- Russian: полуно́чничать
- Spanish: hacer días y noches
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