small hours (of the night)

small hours (of the night)
the small hours (of the night) & the wee hours (of the night)
the hours immediately after midnight. •

The dance went on into the small hours of the night.

Jim goes to bed in the wee hours and gets up at lunchtime.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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