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Idioms  

1. The unpleasant results of an earlier activity, especially overindulgence in alcohol. For example, A headache is just one of the symptoms of the morning after. This expression originated in the late 1800s as a synonym for a hangover (and was often put as the morning after the night before). By the mid-1900s, however, it was also being used more loosely for the aftereffects of staying up late.

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Example Sentences

“Nothing compared to this,” Lanier said, reflecting on the attention to the trial, over oatmeal, toast and a Coke Zero in a downtown Los Angeles hotel the morning after the victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Stocks opened lower this morning after the latest measure of inflation, the producer price index, showed an uptick in pricing pressures.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices were surging Tuesday morning after the chip maker struck a new deal that helps validate the company’s position as a key artificial-intelligence player.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

The move came the morning after the Golden Globes ceremony in Beverly Hills, in which Zaslav’s warm relations with Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-chief executive, were on display.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

So on the morning after the funeral, he sent the current overseer, a burly man named Evan Fowler, to get me from the cookhouse.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler