morning

Related to morning: morning prayer, evening

not be all morning

To not take a long time in the morning, or all the hours in the morning. Usually used in the present tense to convey annoyance. How long is this repair job going to take? It better not be all morning! Run this to the post office, but don't be all morning, OK?
See also: all, morning, not

not take all morning

To not take a long time in the morning, or all the hours in the morning. Usually used in the present tense to convey annoyance. How long is this repair job going to be? It better not take all morning! Run this to the post office, but don't take all morning, OK?
See also: all, morning, not, take
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(Good) morning.

the standard greeting phrase used any time between midnight and noon. Bob: Good morning. Bill: Good morning, Bob. You sure get up early!
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • (early) morning dreams come true
  • (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something)
  • a Monday morning quarterback
  • a morning person
  • be/take all day, morning, etc.
  • first thing in the morning
  • good day
  • good morning
  • gotta get up pretty early in the morning to
  • in the space of (an amount of time)
  • in the space of a minute, an hour, a morning, etc.
  • laze away
  • loaf away
  • loiter away
  • Monday morning quarterback
  • Monday-morning quarterback
  • morning
  • morning after
  • morning after, the
  • Morning dreams come true
  • morning glory
  • morning missile
  • morning tent
  • morning wood
  • morning, noon and night
  • morning, noon, and night
  • not be all day
  • not be all morning
  • not take all day
  • not take all morning
  • of a morning/afternoon/evening
  • red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning
  • that Monday morning feeling
  • the early hours (of the night/morning)
  • the morning after
  • the morning after (the night before)
  • the morning after the night before
  • the other day
  • the other day, morning, etc.
  • the other morning
  • the small hours (of the night/morning)
  • the wee hours (of the night/morning)
  • the wee small hours (of the night/morning)
  • top of the morning (to you)
References in classic literature
"I'm pretty hungry this morning," she announced as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her.
Marilla felt that he wanted it just as much this morning as he had the night before, and that he would go on wanting it.
Anne Of Green Gables
Thus spake Zarathustra and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Morning broke, and the Prince, still full of the wonderful apparition, left his perch and returned to the palace like one in a dream, without even knowing if the fruit had been taken or not; for his whole mind was absorbed by thoughts of Militza and how he was to find her.
Yellow Fairy Book
His card was on the table when they came in from the morning's drive.
Sense and Sensibility
'You don't often come on to the sands, I think,' said he, 'for I have walked there many times, both morning and evening, since I came, and never seen you till now; and several times, in passing through the town, too, I have looked about for your school--but I did not think of the--Road; and once or twice I made inquiries, but without obtaining the requisite information.'
Agnes Grey
Not more than four hours, however, for before five o'clock he set out on his way home in the faint morning twilight.
Adam Bede
It was a wild morning. Over a spacious lawn, and behind a black plantation of firs, the rising sun rent its way upward through piles of ragged gray cloud; heavy drops of rain fell few and far between; the March wind shuddered round the corners of the house, and the wet trees swayed wearily.
No Name
The next morning came; and Blanche marked it as a memorable morning, by committing an act of imprudence, which struck away one more of the chances of discovery that had existed, before the arrival of the Edinburgh telegram on the previous day.
Man And Wife
His wife sent a boy this morning to say his father was in a high fever and could not get out, so I'm here instead."
Black Beauty
"Good morning, mister," said Dominicus, when within speaking distance.
From Twice Told Tales
It was to say good morning to her, to hope she had slept well, to assure her of his devotion, which he trusted she in some faintest manner returned.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
I WOKE at six the next morning; and found George awake too.
Three Men In A Boat
Metivier, who came in the morning with his felicitations, considered it proper in his quality of doctor de forcer la consigne,* as he told Princess Mary, and went in to see the prince.
War and Peace
Since three hours were consumed by making camp at night and cooking beans, by getting breakfast in the morning and breaking camp, and by thawing beans at the midday halt, nine hours were left for sleep and recuperation, and neither men nor dogs wasted many minutes of those nine hours.
Burning Daylight