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burn the midnight oilidiomC2toworklate into thenight 工作到深夜;熬夜工作 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesWork, working and the workplace - act assomething
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- grind
- hoop
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- job
- moonlight
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- subtask
- sweat
See more results » (Definition ofburn the midnight oilfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- A short while back he was ever poring over the written page and burning the midnight oil.
- Do you write best in the morning or do you burn the midnight oil?
- How shall we sit up late at night, burning the midnight oil of study, and yet rise with the dawn, strong from sweet sleep, to guide the plough?
- I hate study, and I will not spoil my looks by burning the midnight oil.
- Then in radiant secrecy Louisa burned the midnight oil and prepared the little book for the press.
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