burn the midnight oil

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to study or work until late at night

   Julian and I, we burn the midnight oil night after night.

In the movies · 1

• Julian and I, we burn the midnight oil night after night.National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022

Learn it in full scenes

• National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
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From the same entry

• burn your bridges
• burn the candle at both ends
• burn your fingers
• burn a hole in your pocket
• burn rubber
• burn to a cinder
• ears are burning
• feel your ears burning
• have money to burn
• burn away
• burn down
• burn off