Idiom
dead of night
Meaning
Middle of the night.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The dog barked in the dead of night.”
“A strange noise woke me up in the dead of night, so I checked the front door.”
“The weary traveler arrived at the remote village in the dead of night, finding only silence and shadows under the pale moon.”
Examples
simple
“The dog barked in the dead of night.”
contextual
“A strange noise woke me up in the dead of night, so I checked the front door.”
complex
“The weary traveler arrived at the remote village in the dead of night, finding only silence and shadows under the pale moon.”
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