all-nighter
通宵达旦,彻夜不眠,通宵,彻夜狂欢
Definitions
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Informal.
- : something that lasts, is available, or is open for business throughout the night: The poker game turned into an all-nighter. Are any of the grocery stores all-nighters?
- : an act of staying up all night, as to study or finish a task: I had to pull an all-nighter to get the paper done on time.
Examples
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by Fortune it was dilapidated.
This led to the formation of a Christian militant group to counter the rebels, and all-out sectarian violence exploded.
In that context, Sotto Sotto was one of the all-out survivors.
He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
English influence was all-powerful at Lisbon and the new envoy had not the talent to counteract it.
Could the government of the country be now carried on upon principles that were all-powerful twenty—or even fewer—years ago?
From Leamington to London was nearly an all-day's run, although the distance is only one hundred miles.