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midnight oil
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
The days were all too short, and soon the midnight-oil began to burn.
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August Niemann, the German novelist, devotes the forenoon to literary work, but never burns midnight-oil on his writing-desk.
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There are two varieties of college students—the midnight-oil and the natural-gas kind; and Petey was a whole gas well in himself.
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