keep late hours
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Coaches commonly keep late hours but not so much in the off-season months, like March.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2011
Galleries keep late hours for First Friday, which is a monthly artistic open house.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The habitually dissolute of Paris rarely keep late hours.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 by Various
"To give parties, to go to the theatre, to read novels, to keep late hours?"
From The Europeans by Henry James
If they do, they will not injure any one but themselves, and they will be certain not to keep late hours.
From There is No Harm in Dancing by W. E. Penn
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