midnight oil
see burn the midnight oil.
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How to use midnight oil in a sentence
The days were all too short, and soon the midnight-oil began to burn.
Poppy | Cynthia StockleyAugust Niemann, the German novelist, devotes the forenoon to literary work, but never burns midnight-oil on his writing-desk.
Methods of Authors | Hugo ErichsenThere are two varieties of college students—the midnight-oil and the natural-gas kind; and Petey was a whole gas well in himself.
At Good Old Siwash | George Fitch
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