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Candle Burn Ends Exhaust Bed Late Early Bad

Phrase/Idiom burn the candle at both ends
Definition If you burn the candle at both ends, you exhaust yourself by doing too much, especially going to bed late and getting up early.
Example She looks bad. I think she has been burning the candle at both ends of late.

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