midnight oil
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“He’s such a legend for all of us,” says Desplat, 63, on a Zoom call from London, where he’s been burning the midnight oil on the score for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming “Frankenstein.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
That’s 02:00 GMT for those in the UK now burning the midnight oil.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024
Employees are no longer interested in burning the midnight oil, said Mandy Price, co-founder and CEO of Kanarys, a tech company that provides organizations with diversity, equity and inclusion data.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023
Modern society, however, rewards early risers while stigmatizing those burning the midnight oil, said Brant Hasler, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh and part of the university's Center for Sleep and Circadian Science.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2022
All that hard work, solving the clues, burning midnight oil, endangering the lives of his friends, it had all come to nothing.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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