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  • Deadline’s tomorrow, so I’m burning the midnight oil at the kitchen table, chugging coffee while the laptop fan screams like it’s dying.
  • The dissertation deadline at the University of Manchester is tomorrow morning at nine, so I am burning the midnight oil at the kitchen table of the shared house, chugging the third filter coffee from the cafetiere, the laptop fan screams like the kettle on the hob, and the cat has given up trying to sit on the keyboard for the night.
  • The accountant in the Birmingham office burned the midnight oil for three weeks straight in March every year of the tax season, the cleaners found the empty Costa cups on the desk every morning at six, the partner brought him a Marks and Spencer egg sandwich at seven each Thursday, and his wife forgot what his face looked like at supper.
  • I've been burning the midnight oil all week for this exam, and at this point my notes are starting to look haunted.
  • She was still burning the midnight oil at 2 a.m., muttering at the spreadsheet like it had personally offended her.
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