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
We keep late hours at the house, whereas an athlete ought to retire early and arise with the sun.
From Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Tom Aldis, being young and gay, was apt to keep late hours at this season, and the night before had been the night of a Harvard assembly.
From The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett
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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