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

She lived in government housing and was working hard to keep her two kids fed, but they were constantly disrupted by an upstairs neighbor with undefined mental health issues who was pounding on the walls and ceiling at all hours of the day.

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The fact that often the opinions that they’re sharing are informed by a wild cocktail of social media posts and propaganda does not invalidate the fact that their problems are real, that they have an unruly neighbor whose own problems cause them to bang on the walls at all hours, and that the government they pay tax dollars into does not have an effective system to deal with this.

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There, her son, distraught, slept all hours of the day.

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The country’s office workers worked from kitchen tables, logging on at all hours.

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Some employees point out that broadly, the rules have changed, with bosses expecting staffers to be connected at all hours to respond quickly to messages.

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