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Examples:lit. many nights under a harsh moon—The Book of One Thousand and One Nights—(ancient) lodge for two nights—The Arabian Nights (classic story)—raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night—Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights—Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights—the winter days are short and the nights long [idiom.]—things that go bump in the night—He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.—first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)—day and night (toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)—burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day—lit. make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil—fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)—black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)—sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)—first half of the night (from nightfall midnight)—night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer)—third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old)—fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old)—fig. night and day difference—(of a shop etc) close (for the night, or permanently)—night demon (malign spirit believed plague people during sleep)—lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society—overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long—one of the five two hour periods inwhich the night was formerly divided—night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort—make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour—second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old)— |