burn the midnight oil

burn the midnight oil
burn the midnight oil
Fig. to stay up working, especially studying, late at night. (Alludes to working by the light of an oil lamp late in the night.) •

I have a big exam tomorrow so I'll be burning the midnight oil tonight.

If you burn the midnight oil night after night, you'll probably become ill.

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{v. phr.} To study late at night. * /Exam time was near, and more and more pupils were burning the midnight oil./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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