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the small hours

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the small hours (of the night) and the wee hours (of the night)
the hours immediately after midnight. The dance went on into the small hours of the night. Jim goes to bed in the wee hours and gets up at lunchtime.
See also: hour, small

the small hours
the early hours of the morning (often + of ) I was up till the small hours of Wednesday morning finishing off that report. She was born in the small hours of Saturday morning.
See the fine print, Don't sweat the small stuff, make feel small
See also: hour, small


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If I had kept it about me--I might have had that towel over my face, in the small hours of the morning
When I had read two or three of the small hours away and was as wide awake as ever, I found that a drink furnished the soporific effect.
Having set off in the small hours of the fourteenth, accompanied by a bugler and two Cossacks, Balashev reached the French outposts at the village of Rykonty, on the Russian side of the Niemen, by dawn.
 
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