spend the night

spend the night

1. To sleep in another person's house as their guest. My son is spending the night at his friend's house tonight. It's getting late, so why don't you both spend the night in our spare room?
2. By extension, to spend the night in someone's bed, with the implication of having sex with them. Are you sure you're ready for him to spend the night? You've only been going out for a couple weeks. Even when I was in my mid-20s, my parents still didn't allow my girlfriend to spend the night with me.
See also: night, spend
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

spend the ˈnight with somebody/together

stay with somebody for a night and have sex with them: James told me Kim and Robin spent the night together.
See also: night, somebody, spend, together
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • spend the night with somebody/together
  • stay the night
  • big as a house
  • keep open house
  • open house, keep
  • tiny house
  • ask up
  • out of square
  • move house
  • with no trace
References in periodicals archive
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Having won the Bush Tucker Trial, the girls spent the night drinking champagne in a luxury villa, while the boys were dumped in a jungle clearing to spend the night on ground sheets.
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They want volunteers to spend the night in the hall, which has a reputation as being one of the most haunted houses in Yorkshire.
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Under the strict regime laid down by Roy Keane, the Stadium of Light players had to spend the night before a home match cooped up in a hotel.
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Ewan Ogilvie, 41, from Glasgow, told how around 200 passengers, including families and young children, were forced to spend the night on foam mats on the floor of a gym.
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ABOUT 20 residents had to spend the night in temporary accommodation after a blaze broke out in their block of flats.
Blaze flats evacuated
The department wants to know how many more spend the night on the street.
2000 volunteers try to count New York's homeless
Mr Justice Wakerley ordered that Irish should spend the night in custody and would deal with the case this morning.
Night in cells for recording a court case
Welch, in hyping the program to fellow Southern Baptist preachers, promised that attendees would visit Fort Bragg, spend the night at the facility, see areas that are normally off-limits to civilians and spend "informal time" with Boykin.
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Spend the night in a Sheraton hotel where warm and caring service meets your every need.
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While most passengers were able to return home by other means of transportation, about 1,000 had to spend the night on the trains.
CORRECTED LEAD: Around 1,000 people stranded overnight JR..