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dead of night

  1. (俗语) 深夜半夜
    近义词: deep of night;亦参见Thesaurus:midnight
    • 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 study at dead of night in 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.
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    • 1968, “Blackbird”, 出自 Paul McCartney 作词, The Beatles, 演出者 The Beatles:
      Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly
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  • 常作“in the dead of night”,但有时亦作“at dead of night”(类似“at midnight”)。