The small hours

Дата публикации: Feb 29, 2016 5:42:20 AM

the wee/small/early hours (of the night) (also especially Scottish English the wee small hours, especially North American English the wee hours)

the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight

We worked well into the small hours.

The fighting began in the early hours of Saturday morning.

He worked into the wee small hours to get everything perfect for the opening day.

She was up until the ​small ​hours of the ​morning ​trying to ​finish her ​essay.

The dance went on into the small hours of the night.

Jim goes to bed in the wee hours and gets up at lunchtime.

I was up till the small hours of Wednesday morning finishing off that report.

She was born in the small hours of Saturday morning.