Midnight Expressions: Anthology

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The day-of-month field can be nW, which stands for the nearest weekday to day of the month n. If n falls on Saturday, this yields the Friday before it. If n falls on Sunday, this yields the Monday after, which also happens if n is 1 and falls on a Saturday (that is: 1W stands for the first weekday of the month). If a specific hour is used, it could mean the first half of that hour, or could mean anytime in the hour, even rarely beyond the next hour, depending on the specificity of the sentence as a whole. "It's gone ten before Jim's in bed" is less specific than "It was gone eight before we were served supper." Jim may well frequently go to bed after 10:30 (probably even after 11 sometimes, but not frequently), but I'd be absolutely certain supper was served before 9 and almost certain it was before 8:30 (otherwise the sentence would have been "It was gone half eight before we were served supper," "half eight" being a British idiom for 8:30).

Midnight - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

The day-of-month and day-of-week fields can contain a L character, which has a different meaning in each field. In the day-of-month field, L stands for the last day of the month. If followed by a negative offset (that is, L-n), it means nth-to-last day of the month.English names can also be used for the day-of-month and day-of-week fields. Use the first three letters of the particular day or month (case does not matter). Chinese fire drill: When four people get out of a car at a red light and exchange places in the car Among the 1960s hipster contingent, their lingo included phrases to describe superlative experiences: Having the latest and newest of anything, then as now, is of extreme importance to those who are truly hip. For example, in the first sentence above are we to infer that the time was sometime between midnight and 1am (or 12:30 or whatever the appropriate cut-off is), or is it less specific, meaning generally late at night?

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Something that was wonderful would be "outta sight" (so great or unbelievable, you just couldn't take it all in.)

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faire le jaune - to refuse to go on strike and therefore, in the eyes of the strikers and the unions, to be a political traitor A field may be an asterisk ( *), which always stands for “first-last”. For the day-of-the-month or day-of-the-week fields, a question mark ( ?) may be used instead of an asterisk. That specific sentence rings oddly, I don't think it would be used that way. But I could easily see "She's gone eleven weeks old now and gives us a lot of smiles" or "He's easily gone 60" to mean "he" was at least 60 years old. I suspected from context that this means sometime past that hour, generally where I might say "after eight" or "past midnight", which is confirmed in this (closed) post. I appreciated the detail that it isn't used for planning purposes. L (last) has different meanings when used in various fields. For example, if it’s applied in the < day-of-month>field, it means last day of the month, i.e. “31st of January” and so on as per the calendar month. It can be used with an offset value, like “L-3”, which denotes the “third to last day of the calendar month.” In < day-of-week>, it specifies the “last day of a week.” It can also be used with another value in < day-of-week>, like “6L”, which denotes the “last Friday.”