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keep late hours

Idioms  
  1. Stay awake until late at night. For example, Never call Ethel before noon; she keeps late hours and sleeps all morning.


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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

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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