keep someone up at night en · VERB
Meanings
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(figuratively, informal) To worry, to disturb, to give someone sleepless nights.
Reporter: You share this border, more than eight hundred miles, with Vladimir Putin. What keeps you up at night? Niinisto: Nothing keeps me up at night. But in the daytime we... like I have said, we are not afraid, but we are fully awake.
2023 March 9, Sauli Niinisto, 9:23 from the start, in Finland's President Sees No Reason to Talk to Putin, Bloomberg, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| keeping someone up at night | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kept someone up at night | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kept someone up at night | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| keeps someone up at night | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
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Translations (5)
fr empêcher de dormir (Translations) · fi valvottaa (Translations) · ar أقضّ المضجع (Translations) · pl spędzić sen z powiek (Translations) · pl spędzać sen z powiek (Translations)