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Meaning of keep someone up at night | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To worry, to disturb, to give someone sleepless nights.

figuratively, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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