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all hours
Irregular times, as in You can't come home at all hours and expect your supper to be ready. The expression can also mean “late at night,” as in College students like to stay up talking until all hours. It is sometimes amplified into all hours of the day and night. [c. 1930]
Example Sentences
Californians clog their freeways up and down the state at nearly all hours.
Imagine making the least funny tweets in the world, at all hours of the day, and thinking you could go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump, who—no matter what else I can say about him—is without a doubt one of the greatest posters in human history.
Before long, Uma’s taste for cigarettes under the moonlight turns into regular solo walks at all hours.
And people don’t die alone: We allow visitation any and all hours of the day and night.
Someone started calling our house at all hours of the night, hanging up when we answered, or sitting in silence.
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