dead of night

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Middle of thenight.Synonyms:deep of night;see alsoThesaurus:midnightc.1601–1602(date written),William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene v]:Write loyalcantonsofcontemnèdlove / And sing them loud evenin the dead of night.1960,P. G. Wodehouse,Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s studyat dead of nightin quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself.1968, “Blackbird”, inPaul McCartney(lyrics),The Beatles, performed byThe Beatles:Blackbird singingin the dead of night/ Take these broken wings and learn to fly

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