graveyard hours
Midnight work shift
Graveyard hours are the late-night and early-morning period when most people sleep—roughly midnight to dawn.
The phrase evokes the stillness and emptiness of a cemetery: I've been working graveyard hours all week.
Related to graveyard shift, the overnight work schedule in hospitals, factories, and emergency services.
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
- dead of nightDarkest part of evening
- insomniaPersistent inability to rest
- sleep deprivationInadequate rest condition
- nightshiftOvernight work schedule
night watch · stillness · dead silence · darkness · cemetery · tombstones · haunted · silence · eerie · 3am · sleepless · nocturnal · shadows · moonlight · vigil · restless · night owl · hushed
time of work shift
graveyard hoursday shift
Work period during sunlight
business hours · first shift · morning shift · regular hours · nine to five
graveyard, hours, grave, yard, graves, graveyards, yards, hour, hourly