挑灯夜战
Traditional form:
挑燈夜戰
Pinyin (reading):
tiǎodēngyèzhàn
Definitions:
- to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night
- to burn the midnight oil
Characters:
- 挑 - to select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load
- 灯 - lamp, lantern, light
- 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
- 战 - war, fighting, battle
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