burn the midnight oil

English

Verb

to burn the midnight oil (third-person singular simple present burns the midnight oil, present participle burning the midnight oil, simple past and past participle burned the midnight oil)

1. (idiomatic) To work studiously, especially late into the night.

   He was burning the midnight oil to finish his paper.

Synonyms

• elucubrate
• pull an all-nighter

Translations

work through the night

• Arabic: أشعل فانوس الليل (ar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開夜車 (cmn), 开夜车 (cmn) (kāi yèchē) ("to drive the night car"), 焚膏繼晷 (cmn), 焚膏继晷 (cmn) (féngāojìguǐ)

• Czech: studovat dlouho do noci
• Dutch: tot laat in de nacht werken, het nachtje doordoen
• Finnish: valvoa yötä myöten
• French: travailler tard le soir
• German: bis spät in die Nacht arbeiten, die Nacht zum Tage machen

• Hungarian: késő éjszakáig tanul, éjjel-nappal tanul
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 徹夜する (ja) (tetsuya suru)
• Portuguese: passar a noite em claro (pt), virar a noite (pt), fazer uma directa (pt)
• Russian: полуночничать (ru) (polunóčničat') , засиживаться (ru) (sasíživat'sja)  (e.g. "до поздней ночи")
• Spanish: hacer días y noches (es)
• Swedish: Göra natt till dag