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keep late hours

[keep late hours] {v. phr.}

To go to bed late; habitually stay up (and work) late.

/"If you always keep such late hours, your health might suffer," Tom's doctor said./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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