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burning the midnight oil

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working very long hours, often into the night. What doctors do know is that burning the midnight oil is bad for your health.

Etymology: from the use of oil to provide light before the invention of electricity

See also: burning, midnight, oil

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``We're burning the midnight oil trying to find solutions as a staff and trying to turn over every stone we can,'' manager Mike Scioscia said. DODGERS' WILD RIDE OFFENSIVE OUTBURST GIVES THEM EASY WIN OVER ANGELS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) And it doesn't appear that the pendulum will stop here, because farm groups supporting both sides of the country-of-origin labeling issue are burning the midnight oil, pleading their cases and garnering support. Cool: where does it stand? by Agri Marketing Publishers may be burning the midnight oil to issue new textbooks with revised chapters on underwriting commercial risks now that the destruction of the World Trade Center has set traditional underwriting on its tail. Changing with the times: Insurers, now aware of their vulnerability ... by Blades, Judith A. / Best's Review More results

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``We're burning the midnight oil trying to find solutions as a staff and trying to turn over every stone we can,'' manager Mike Scioscia said.

DODGERS' WILD RIDE OFFENSIVE OUTBURST GIVES THEM EASY WIN OVER ANGELS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

And it doesn't appear that the pendulum will stop here, because farm groups supporting both sides of the country-of-origin labeling issue are burning the midnight oil, pleading their cases and garnering support.

Cool: where does it stand? by Agri Marketing

Publishers may be burning the midnight oil to issue new textbooks with revised chapters on underwriting commercial risks now that the destruction of the World Trade Center has set traditional underwriting on its tail.

Changing with the times: Insurers, now aware of their vulnerability ... by Blades, Judith A. / Best's Review

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