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Burn the midnight oil
"Burn the midnight oil" in a Sentence (4 examples)
Near-synonym: pull an all-nighter
He was burning the midnight oil to finish his paper.
She was burning the midnight oil to finish her part of the project.
You worked at whatever task you were engaged in — churning out steel nuts for the car companies or churning out essays in college — until you were done, even if you had to burn the midnight oil. No excuses, no whining, no cheating.
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