(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
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when it rains, it pours (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
lunar New Year's Eve
reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)
second half of the night (from midnight to sunrise)
to be sleepless all night
all night long
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom) / fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
to travel day and night
starlit night / by night / under the night sky / through the night
nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
the equinox
circadian rhythm
(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)
(bird species of China) savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis)
night patrol / to make nightly rounds
(bird species of China) nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
polar night
(bird species of China) European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)
witch / shrew / vixen
nightly
(bird species of China) great eared nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis)
day and night / regardless of the time of day or night
wedding night
nighttime snack / late-night supper
in the dead of night (idiom)
endless night (idiom) / fig. long suffering
to stay up through the night (idiom)
on that night
that very night / the same night
white night
see 屋漏偏逢連夜雨|屋漏偏逢连夜雨[]
curfew
(bird species of China) blue-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis athertoni)
to get up in the night to urinate
all through the night / overnight
endless night (idiom) / fig. long suffering
lit. many nights under a harsh moon / long years of oppression (idiom)
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