late into the night
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2.7
- idiom
:
hasta altas horas de la noche
- I called her all day, all evening, and late into the night.
- late into the night
- stay late into the night
- worked late into the night
In today's world, we increasingly live our lives late into the night, whether it's work, obligations, socialising or glued to a screen.
- In today's world, we increasingly live our lives late into the night, whether it's work, obligations, socialising or glued to a screen.
- It hacks or dopamine allergic systems and gives us energy to to work late into the night.
- And I think what I found in a start up is when you're small and you're two people, it's me and Mike were coding late into the night.
- You can't escape it by smoking weed and watching TV, going down the rabbit hole of pornography, playing video games and late into the night.
- So the society's culture, the expectations and the lifestyle that we are so used to shops being open late into the night.
Examples
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The senate remained in emergency session late into the night debating the president's call for martial law.
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In the spring of 1998, the fax machines at UC campuses must have worked late into the night.
Academic text (2001) -
We used to read all the same books and stay up, late into the night, just talking about them.
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We moved to the sofa and talked late into the night about this thing we started.
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In the living room, late into the night, they sat and listened to the radio.
Fiction book (1998) -
The harassment continues long into the night until the guests finally disperse.
Academic text (1998) -
It was a world of synagogues and houses of study, where young and old crowded together by the candlewick, to study late into the night.
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In today's world, we increasingly live our lives late into the night, whether it's work, obligations, socialising or glued to a screen.
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According to Chapin, after a whole day's fieldwork, Lang would stay up late into the night developing his negatives.
Academic text (1991) -
We used to read all the same books and stay up late into the night, just talking about them.
Synonyms
15
4.6
At a very late, quiet time when most people are asleep
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'until a very late hour' is directly derivable from combining 'late' (near the end/later), 'into' (reaching into a period), and 'night' (the nighttime period), yielding a clear temporal-extension interpretation. This is a common, compositional English pattern (and has close parallels in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Late into the night gives the image of someone still awake with a lamp while the night grows dark and the time gets late. So it means 'until a very late hour at night'.