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[small] or [wee hours] {n. phr.}

The very early hours of the morning between 1 and 4 A.M.

/My brother was in trouble for coming home in the small hours./

See: WEE HOURS.

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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

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