in the dead of night

in the dead of night

Midnight, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ē Ig ē NGB à NY è, which means midnight. From a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty.

Idiom usage

Since you were surrounded, it's been tight outside. In the middle of the night.

Analysis of Idioms

In the middle of the night

The origin of Idioms

The seventh chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "if you have a good job, you send someone else; if you send someone in the middle of the night, you send me to forget eight lambs without conscience!"

Idiom explanation

Late at night.