midnight oil
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“My staff is burning the midnight oil for a month now,” McGuire said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025
That’s 02:00 GMT for those in the UK now burning the midnight oil.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024
Yes, Swift chose to burn the midnight oil to spill her album's secrets, night after night, in keeping with its theme — but fans didn't have to choose to stay up.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023
“No more of that burning the midnight oil poring through those books.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2022
All that hard work, solving the clues, burning midnight oil, endangering the lives of his friends, it had all come to nothing.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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