(as) black as night Idiom, Proverb

burn the midnight oil

study/work all night or until very, very late at night.

day and night

continually We worked day and night to finish the project before the end of the month.

fly-by-night

bad, dishonest, not to be trusted He put his money in a fly-by-night company and lost it all.

morning after (the night before)

a hangover He

pull an all-nighter

study or work all night without getting any sleep.

all-nighter

1. a club night or event that goes on all night
2. someone who works all night

bommie night

bonfire night, see bonnie night. Possibly spelt bombie night from the use of fireworks [East Lancashire/Merseyside use]

bonnie night

Bonfire Night. An annual celebration of the foiling of an attempt to blow up The Houses of Parliament in 1605

small hours of the night

Idiom(s): small hours (of the night) AND wee hours (of the night)

Theme: TIME

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.

ships that pass in the night

Idiom(s): ships that pass in the night

Theme: ENCOUNTER

people who meet each other briefly by chance and who are unlikely to meet again.
• Mary wanted to see Jim again, but to him, they were ships that passed in the night.
• When you travel a lot on business, you meet many ships that pass in the night.

(as) atramentous as night

Very aphotic or atramentous in color. A: "I can't accept that Grandma's beard acclimated to be atramentous as night." B: "Well, sure—you've alone anytime accepted her with gray hair."Learn more: black, night

black as night

Also, black as atramentous or angle . Totally black; also, actual dark. For example, The able-bodied was atramentous as night, or She had eyes that were atramentous as coal. These similes accept survived while others-black as ink, a raven, thunder, hell, the devil, my hat, the minister's coat, the ace of spades-are hardly if anytime heard today. Of the accepted altar of comparison, pitch may be the oldest, so acclimated in Homer's Iliad (c. 850 b.c.), and coal is mentioned in a Saxon arrangement from a.d. 1000. John Milton acclimated black as night in Paradise Lost (1667). Learn more: black, night

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