midnight ride
Travel at twelve
A midnight ride is a journey made in the middle of the night, often with urgency or romantic connotations.
The phrase evokes Paul Revere's famous 1775 warning ride, lending drama to any nocturnal excursion: We took a midnight ride through the desert.
In slang, it can refer to late-night sexual activity.
- Paul RevereColonial warning horseman
- gallopSwiftest quadruped gait
- RevereRevolutionary War messenger
- lanternEnclosed portable light
- hoovesUngulate foot coverings
galloping hooves · darkness · horseback · moonlight · colonial · American Revolution · messenger · alarm · British · warning · urgent · canter · patriot · Boston · freedom · secret · shadows · stirrups
- Revolutionary WarGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross flag
- Lexington and ConcordLexington, Concord, minutemen, militia, British redcoats
- New England historyMassachusetts, Boston, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritans
- American folklorePaul Bunyan, tall tales, folk heroes, John Henry, folk narratives
- historical anecdotesTrojan horse, Gordian knot, wooden horse, Lady Godiva