The party lasted until the early hours.
early hours
idiom Slang
Cockney rhyming slang · East London
flowers
Origin
As flower buyers have to keep very early hours to buy their produce at Covent Garden flower market.
I could not sleep, so I stayed up reading until the early hours of the morning.
After working through the early hours to finish the report, he finally collapsed into bed just as the sun began to rise.
Last updated June 7, 2026