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keep someone up at night (third-person singular simple present keeps one up at night, present participle keeping one up at night, simple past and past participle kept one up at night)
- (idiomatic, colloquial) to make someone disturbed (such that someone might not sleep well); to be watchful of
2023 March 9, Sauli Niinisto, 9:23 from the start, in Finland's President Sees No Reason to Talk to Putin, Bloomberg, archived from the original on 09 March 2023:Reporter: You share this border, more than eight hundred miles, with Vladimir Putin. What keeps you up at night?
Niinisto: Nothing keeps me up at night. But in the daytime we... like I have said, we are not afraid, but we are fully awake.
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