all night long
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1.8
- idiom
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toda la noche
- And we stayed up there all night long and waited for sunrise.
- stay up all night long
- sing all night long
- go all night long
I was hiding in a closet all night long in that closet.
- I was hiding in a closet all night long in that closet.
- And just all night long, I'm taking pictures.
- When we were on set, we used to just stay up all night long talking.
- This cools me down and keeps me cool all night long.
- All right, So that day, because Kim and David had partied all night long, they didn't go to login.
- And, and I faced it all night long.
- I sit there on that runway all night long.
- First, though, it's time for the man you've been waiting for all night long.
- Twalk Master, I have been vaping all night long.
- And So what you did is you did calisthenics all night long.
- And I've had patients who sleep with the TV on all night long.
Examples
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We used to talk all night long until the sun came up.
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I mean, you're literally working all night long, all day long.
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Hey, I want to dance with you all night long after the party.
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When we were on set, we used to just stay up all night long talking.
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I remember back then talking like this with a friend all night long.
Fiction book (1995) -
All night long I listened to that sound.
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We've been trying to track her down all night long.
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Well I got news for ya, I didn't sleep all night long!
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And what, have you been staring at her all night long, watching from afar?
Blog text (26) -
We danced and laughed together all night long at the celebration.
Synonyms
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1.0
During the whole night from evening until morning
195
1.2
For one night
Lasting for the whole night
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning ('for the entire duration of the night') is directly and compositionally derived from 'all' (the whole), 'night' (the nightly period) and 'long' (for an extended time). This is a common, cross-linguistically frequent way to express duration, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The adverb all night long comes from a plain picture: all means the whole, night is the time from sunset to sunrise, and long means lasting. Imagine a candle burning or a party that goes on until morning, so it means 'for the whole night'.