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To work or study late into the night through tireless persistence.
"The law students burned the midnight oil preparing for the bar exam."
"Our development team burned the midnight oil to push the release on time."
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Refers to burning olive oil or kerosene lamps at a desk to continue laboring long after the sun had set, before modern electric lighting.
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