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Irregular times, as in You can't come home at all hours and expect your supper to be ready . The expression can also mean “late at night,” as in College students like to stay up talking until all hours . It is sometimes amplified into all hours of the day and night . [c. 1930]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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