in the dead of night

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   in the quietest part of the night

   "in secrecy and in the dead of night.

   He wasn't out when you were there, he just wasn't answering the door in the dead of night, like some people do.

In the movies · 3

• write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night,Twelfth Night2012
• "in secrecy and in the dead of night.Withnail & I1987
• He wasn't out when you were there, he just wasn't answering the door in the dead of night, like some people do.Psycho1960
• Juan Antonio hurried out in the dead of night.Vicky Cristina Barcelona2008
• Comes in the dead of the night, and he steals all my chocolate.Wonka2023
• Great! What, "same time"? You mean, dead of night?Klaus2019
• Edmond Dantes is dead. Good night.The Count of Monte Cristo2002
• Taglin was found dead the same night Mike got shot.Bad Boys for Life2020

Learn it in full scenes

• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• be dead and gone
• be a dead ringer for
• dead as a dodo
• dead as a doornail
• a dead duck
• the dead hand of
• dead in the water
• dead meat
• dead on arrival
• dead to the world
• over my dead body
• wouldn't be seen dead