keep … hours

keep … hours
keep… ˈhours idiom
if you keep regular, strange, etc. hours, the times at which you do things (especially getting up or going to bed) are regular, strange, etc.
Main entry:houridiom

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  • keep late hours — {v. phr.} To go to bed late; habitually stay up (and work) late. * / If you always keep such late hours, your health might suffer, Tom s doctor said./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • keep late hours — {v. phr.} To go to bed late; habitually stay up (and work) late. * / If you always keep such late hours, your health might suffer, Tom s doctor said./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • keep good hours — 1. To go to bed and to rise early 2. To lead a quiet and regular life • • • Main Entry: ↑hour keep good hours see under ↑hour • • • Main Entry: ↑keep …   Useful english dictionary

  • keep early hours — To rise and go to bed early • • • Main Entry: ↑early …   Useful english dictionary

  • keep regular hours — keep regular/late/etc hours phrase to perform the same activities every day at regular/​late etc times, especially going to bed and getting out of bed Thesaurus: going to bed, getting up and staying in bedhyponym to sleep, or to go to… …   Useful english dictionary

  • keep late hours — keep regular/late/etc hours phrase to perform the same activities every day at regular/​late etc times, especially going to bed and getting out of bed Thesaurus: going to bed, getting up and staying in bedhyponym to sleep, or to go to… …   Useful english dictionary

  • keep\ late\ hours — v. phr. To go to bed late; habitually stay up (and work) late. If you always keep such late hours, your health might suffer, Tom s doctor said …   Словарь американских идиом

  • keep late hours — work until the late hours of the night …   English contemporary dictionary

  • To keep bad hours — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • To keep good hours — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • keep early hours — wake up early, rise early, get out of bed early in the morning …   English contemporary dictionary

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