all hours

1. Irregular times, as in You can't come home at all hours and expect your supper to be ready. The expression can also mean “late at night,” as in College students like to stay up talking until all hours. It is sometimes amplified into all hours of the day and night. [c. 1930]

Example Sentences

But when the opportunity came along to pitch Toyota, she leaned on a lesson she learned listening to her father take calls at the funeral home all hours of the day.

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The school gets inbound emails from customers at all hours.

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At a time when retail trading is booming thanks to the accessibility of mobile applications, investors in the U.S. are itching to have the opportunity to trade at all hours because it gives them greater flexibility to decide when to place orders, particularly outside of full-time work hours.

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There are some markets in the U.S. where investors can already trade at all hours.

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Freed from ties to an actual courthouse, private judges have presided over cases at all hours—and locations.

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