Burn The Midnight Oil

to work diligently, especially late into the night

I had to burn the midnight oil to get that done.

By Cary

To stay up all night working. Apparently some drop the "the", though this must be rare.

Man Bob, you must have really burned the midnight oil on this one!

By George

Burning The Midnight Oil

To burn the midnight oil implies working overtime or working over normal capacity.

"Looks like we're going to have to pull an all-nighter today. We're going to be burning the midnight oil."

By Elset

Burn That Midnight Oil

A clever way to ask your 420 friendly fuck buddy to come over late at night, do some dabs, and fuck like rabbits.

Similar to Netflix and chill.

And. . . It doesn't count if you're just smoking weed. Dabs only. kk?

Guy: Hey what r u doing?
Girl: Not much, just bored :-(
Guy: You wanna come over and burn that midnight oil?
Girl: Ummmm. . . Sure. . . why not? I haven't been high all day ;-)

By Thea

Burning The Midnight Oil

To do hard drugs(cocaine, heroin meth, etc)

Dustin burning the midnight oil.

By Tobye

Burning The Midnight Oil

Make coffee to stay awake

Boil some water, I'll be burning the midnight oil and I take my coffee black.

By Florencia

Burn Midnight Oil

to stay up all night doing work. often homework.

i burned midnight oil last night but slept in coz i was too tired

By Charla

Burning The Green Midnight Oil

To stay up smoking the marijuana rather than sleeping. Usually followed by an attack of the munchies, resulting in a loss of snack food.

"I'm sorry i fell asleep in your class, Professor, but I was up all night burning the green midnight oil."

By Anni

Define Burn The Midnight Oil Meaning