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night

A shortening of "good night," a phrase used to wish someone well, as when leaving or going to bed. A: "Thanks for having us over for dinner. Good night!" B: "Night, Tom. Get home safe." A: "Good night, Mommy." B: "Night, honey. Sweet dreams."
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(Good) night.

 
1. the appropriate departure phrase for leave-taking after dark. (This assumes that the speakers will not see one another until morning at the earliest. Night alone is familiar.) John: Bye, Alice. Alice: Night. See you tomorrow. Bill: Good night, Mary. Mary: Night, Bill.
2. the appropriate phrase for wishing someone a good night's sleep. Father: Good night, Bill. Bill: Night, Pop. Father: Good night. Mother: Good night.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • (as) black as night
  • (as) different as night and day
  • (if you) sing before breakfast, (you'll) cry before night
  • (it's) time to call it a night
  • a night on the tiles
  • a night out
  • a night owl
  • a night person
  • a night to remember
  • a one-night stand
  • about last night...
  • all cats are gray after dark/at night
  • all cats are gray at night
  • all cats are gray by night
  • all hours
  • all hours (of the day and night)
  • all night long
  • all right on the night
  • at all hours (of the day and night)
  • at night
  • Bank Night
  • be like ships in the night
  • be like ships that pass in the night
  • be ships that pass in the night
  • be/take all day, morning, etc.
  • because you touch yourself at night
  • black as a skillet
  • black as night
  • black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
  • bunk down (for the night)
  • by day
  • by night
  • call it a day
  • call it a night
  • day and night
  • day or night
  • dead of
  • dead of night
  • dead of night/winter, the
  • different as night and day
  • far into the night
  • fly-by-night
  • good night
  • goodnight Vienna
  • have a bad night
  • have a good night
  • have a good/bad night
  • have a late night
  • have an early night
  • have an early/a late night
  • hen night
  • hotter than a hooker's doorknob on nickel night
  • how can you sleep at night
  • I must say good night
  • I was up all night with a sick friend
  • in the dead of night
  • it'll be all right on the night
  • ladies' night
  • lady of the night
  • like a thief in the night
  • like night and day
  • make a day of it
  • make a day/night/week of it
  • make a day/night/weekend of it
  • make a night of it
  • morning, noon and night
  • morning, noon, and night
  • night
  • night after night
  • night and day
  • night night
  • night of the long knives
  • night on the town
  • night owl
  • night person
  • nighty night
  • one-night stand
  • red sky at night, sailor's delight
  • red sky at night, shepherd's delight
  • Saturday night special
  • ships in the night
  • ships that pass in the night
  • sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night
  • spend the night
  • spend the night with somebody/together
  • stag night
  • stay the night
  • the dead of night
  • the early hours (of the night/morning)
  • the morning after (the night before)
  • the morning after the night before
  • the night is young
  • the small hours (of the night/morning)
  • the still of (the) night
  • the still of the night
  • the watches of the night
  • the wee hours (of the night/morning)
  • the wee small hours (of the night/morning)
  • thief in the night
  • things that go bump in the night
  • three dog night
  • three-dog night
  • till all hours (of the day and night)
  • Time to call it a night
  • until all hours (of the day and night)
References in classic literature
Thus, they could not understand his excessive somnolence in the forenoon, nor his excessive activity at night. When they found him wandering along the hallways at night, or climbing over giddy roofs, or running in the hills, they decided he was a somnambulist.
The night called to him, for he was, for that period of the twenty-four hours, essentially a night-prowler.
The Night Born
The room he died in, ma'am, was the room you slept in last night. Your room tonight is the room just above it.
I wouldn't stay another night here myself--no, not for anything that could be offered me!'
The Haunted Hotel
Several cried that they did; but the majority of the company having been engaged in the assault upon the Warren, and all present having been concerned in one or other of the night's expeditions, it proved that they knew no more than Hugh himself; having been merely warned by each other, or by the scout, and knowing nothing of their own knowledge.
But Hugh and Dennis stood with their backs against it, and kept them back, until the clamour had so far subsided that their voices could be heard, when they called to them together that to go now, in broad day, would be madness; and that if they waited until night and arranged a plan of attack, they might release, not only their own companions, but all the prisoners, and burn down the jail.
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
Nevertheless, I put my light out early, and sat a long time peeping through my blind; but only an inevitable Tom, with back hunched up and tail erect, broke the moonlit profile of the back-garden wall; and once more that disreputable music (which none the less had saved my life) was the only near sound all night.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Above me shone the stars, for the night was very clear.
`Through that long night I held my mind off the Morlocks as well as I could, and whiled away the time by trying to fancy I could find signs of the old constellations in the new confusion.
Time Machine
And everything that had been stirring Levin during that sleepless night, all the resolutions he had made, all vanished at once.
He glanced at the sky, expecting to find there the cloud shell he had been admiring and taking as the symbol of the ideas and feelings of that night. There was nothing in the sky in the least like a shell.
Anna Karenina
Ten times must thou laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise thy stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb thee in the night.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
One night I had roamed into the City, and was walking slowly on in my usual way, musing upon a great many things, when I was arrested by an inquiry, the purport of which did not reach me, but which seemed to be addressed to myself, and was preferred in a soft sweet voice that struck me very pleasantly.
The Old Curiosity Shop
But, I knew them well, and could have found my way on a far darker night, and had no excuse for returning, being there.
Great Expectations
All through the night as the train rattled along, the grandmother told Tom tales of Winesburg and of how he would enjoy his life working in the fields and shooting wild things in the woods there.
Winesberg Ohio