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until all hours

[until all hours] {adv. phr.}

Until very late at night.

/He is so anxious to pass his exams with flying colors that he stays up studying until all hours./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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

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