the watches of the night

The moments or hours of the night, typically when someone is awake. I used to wake in the dark watches of the night, my body paralyzed, convinced that someone or something was watching me from the shadows. My poor wife was up in the silent watches of the night for two months before our daughter was born, plagued by restless legs and an aching back.

the watches of the night

the hours of night, especially viewed as a time when you cannot sleep. literary

A watch was originally each of the three or four periods of time into which the night was divided, during which a guard would be stationed to keep a lookout for danger or trouble.

See also: night, of, watch

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

See also:

I was up all night with a sick friend
at night
day and night
a night on the tiles
tile
the still of (the) night
the still of the night
morning after
morning after, the
the morning after (the night before)

References in classic literature

So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place, for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, griping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.

Moby Dick I LXVII

It would, doubtless, fare none too well for the man who had permitted the arch enemy of them all aboard the ship in the watches of the night, where later he might set an infernal machine to blow them all to kingdom come.

The Beasts of Tarzan

Thus, then, the ship sped on her way through the watches of the night from dark till dawn,

Odyssey

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释义	the watches of the night the watches of the night The moments or hours of the night, typically when someone is awake. I used to wake in the dark watches of the night, my body paralyzed, convinced that someone or something was watching me from the shadows. My poor wife was up in the silent watches of the night for two months before our daughter was born, plagued by restless legs and an aching back. See also: night, of, watch Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. the watches of the night the hours of night, especially viewed as a time when you cannot sleep. literary A watch was originally each of the three or four periods of time into which the night was divided, during which a guard would be stationed to keep a lookout for danger or trouble. See also: night, of, watch Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: I was up all night with a sick friend at night day and night a night on the tiles tile the still of (the) night the still of the night morning after morning after, the the morning after (the night before) References in classic literature So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place, for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, griping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way. Moby Dick I LXVII It would, doubtless, fare none too well for the man who had permitted the arch enemy of them all aboard the ship in the watches of the night, where later he might set an infernal machine to blow them all to kingdom come. The Beasts of Tarzan Thus, then, the ship sped on her way through the watches of the night from dark till dawn, Odyssey
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