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English
Pronunciation
Verb
pull an all-nighter (third-person singular simple present pulls an all-nighter, present participle pulling an all-nighter, simple past and past participle pulled an all-nighter)
- (idiomatic, informal) To stay awake throughout the night, usually when working or studying.
- Near-synonyms: burn the midnight oil, elucubrate
OK, let's order some pizzas and get comfortable, because we're gonna be pulling an all-nighter to get this emergency help put together.
Translations
work throughout the night
- Arabic: سهر طول الليل
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 開夜車 / 开夜车 (zh) (kāi yèchē) ("to drive the night car"), 熬通宵 (áotōngxiāo)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: een nachtje doorhalen, een nacht doorhalen, lucubreren
- Finnish: valvoa yötä myöten
- French: passer une nuit blanche
- German: (literally "to work on a night shift") eine Nachtschicht einlegen
- Hungarian: éjszakázik (hu), végigdolgozza az éjszakát
- Italian: fare nottata
- Japanese: 徹夜する (ja) (てつやする, tetsuya suru)
- Korean: 밤새우다 (ko) (bamsae'uda), 밤새다 (ko) (bamsaeda)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: døgne (no)
- Nynorsk: døgne
- Polish: zarwać noc (informal)
- Portuguese: passar a noite em claro, virar a noite, fazer uma direta (informal)
- Russian: труди́ться всю ночь напролёт (trudítʹsja vsju nočʹ naproljót)
- Spanish: trasnochar (es), pasar la noche en claro / vela, desvelarse (es)
- Swedish: dygna (sv)
- Thai: โต้รุ่ง
- Turkish: sabahlamak (tr)
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