keep late hours

keep late hours
keep late hours
to stay up or stay out until very late at night. •

I'm always tired because I keep late hours.

If I didn't keep late hours, I wouldn't sleep so late in the morning.

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{v. phr.} To go to bed late; habitually stay up (and work) late. * /"If you always keep such late hours, your health might suffer," Tom's doctor said./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • sit up late to keep late hours — (from Idioms in Speech) not to go to bed at the usual hours Alf and Morris swore they could not sleep. They wanted to sit up all night in order to get down to the wagon on time. (K. Prichard) Bless you! Don t sit up too late. Anne s rather in the …   Idioms and examples

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  • To keep good hours — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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