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hours on end	A happening without break	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
at all hours	Late into the night or early morning; when people ought to be sleeping.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
bankers' hours	Any easy job, especially one with a short working day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bankers' hours	The period between 10am and 3pm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wee small hours	He worked into the wee small hours to get everything perfect for the opening day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wee small hours	The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
beauty sleep	Sleep before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to health and beauty.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
catch of the day	A type of fish or other seafood which has been caught and brought to market within more-or-less the last 24 hours.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
sign in	In order to get into the office after hours, you'll have to sign in at the security desk.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
according to	According to the directions, the glue takes 24 hours to dry.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chinese overtime	Any form of overtime in which increasing the hours worked reduces the hourly rate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cracked the whip	My former boss demanded much in the manner of results, production. In addition he worked us long hours without advance notice, without overtime, rather promised US time-off in the future.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il a fait le tour du cadran	1. He has slept the clock round. 2. He has worked for twelve hours at a stretch.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il m'a fait faire le pied de grue pendant deux heures	He made me wait two hours for him; I was dancing attendance on him for two hours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
j'en ai pour deux heures	I shall be two hours over it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
last licks	last few days/ minutes/ hours... of what you are doing	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
night person	A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours, and who usually sleeps during part of the daytime.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nighthawk	A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	Working at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re	to spend one's leisure hours on an object.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
real job	A job which requires the employee to, work regular hours for a consistent wage that often exceeds the provisions of applicable minimum wage legislation. A job that produces a living wage.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
round the clock	Nonstop, 24 hours per day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sidepiecesex	Describes extra-marital or extra-relational physically intimate interaction with one other than one's spouse or longterm partner, with whom one also has some form of established relationship; term, song, and hastag by American Activist Greshun De Bouse to describe one of the acts in which her abusive ex-fiance may have been engaged, while absent from the home daily for 15 hours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sign off	Term used to describe the closing of a radio or television station's studios and cessation of a broadcasting signal, usually during the overnight hours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sign on	The time of day when a radio or television station begins broadcasting, usually after being off the air for several hours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stay back	To remain after normal hours	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tempora matutina	the morning hours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)