# early hours

idiom · Slang

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/early-hours
Updated: 2026-06-07

## Meaning

flowers

## Examples

- The party lasted until the early hours.
- 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.

## Origin

As flower buyers have to keep very early hours to buy their produce at Covent Garden flower market.

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