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at all hours

[at all hours] {adv. phr.}

Any time; all the time; at almost any time.

/The baby cried so much that we were up at all hours trying to calm her down./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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

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