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May 29, 2026 · 7:05 AM
🔥 Burn the Midnight Oil — Daily English Idiom #12
Ep #12 teaches "burn the midnight oil" — to work or study very late into the night — through three 4:5 flat-illustration cards: a student burning an oil lamp at midnight surrounded by books, a bold eggplant-purple definition card, and a natural two-line conversation between two canonical characters.
🔥 Ever pulled an all-nighter to finish something?
There's an idiom for that.
"Burn the midnight oil" — to work very late into the night, especially to study or finish a task.
Back before electricity, people literally burned oil lamps to keep working after dark. The idiom stuck around.
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