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morning
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + morning
Friday/Monday/Saturday etc morning
• I’ll see you on Monday morning.
tomorrow morning
• Can you have the report ready by tomorrow morning?
yesterday morning
• I haven’t seen her since yesterday morning.
this morning
(= today in the morning )
• What did you do this morning?
the next morning/the following morning
• His meeting was not until the next morning.
late morning
• By the time he woke, it was late morning.
the early morning
• A light frost covered the fields in the early morning.
a beautiful/fine/sunny morning
• Outside it was a beautiful morning.
a cold/frosty morning
• Porridge tastes good on a cold morning.
a summer/winter etc morning
• They set off on a beautiful spring morning.
morning + NOUN
the morning sun/light/mist
• the warmth of the morning sun
a morning coffee/run/swim
(= that someone does, drinks etc in the morning )
• She read the paper while drinking her morning coffee.
the morning paper/news
(= that is published or broadcast in the morning )
• The story was in all the morning papers.
the morning train/flight
(= that leaves in the morning )
• She took the morning flight back to London.
phrases
early in the morning
• He has to get up very early in the morning.
first thing in the morning
(= at the beginning of the morning )
• She set off first thing in the morning.
from morning till night
(= all day – used for emphasis )
• He works from morning till night.
in the small hours of the morning
(= very early, before dawn )
• I was woken up in the small hours of the morning by a strange sound.
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Phrase(s): (Good) morning.
the standard greeting phrase used any time between midnight and noon. • Bob: Good morning. Bill: Good morning, Bob. You sure get up early!
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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noun ADJ. this, tomorrow, yesterday | Friday, Saturday, etc. | early, late The side of the mountain appeared pink in the early morning light. | April, May, etc. | spring, summer, etc. | beautiful, bright, fine, sunny | cold, frosty, grey VERB + MORNING spend I spent the morning doing some sightseeing. MORNING + VERB dawn The morning dawned bright and sunny. | progress, wear on As the morning wore on she became more and more tired. MORNING + NOUN coffee, tea | prayer, service | rush hour, train | newspaper, paper | sickness PREP. by ~, during the ~, in the ~, on Monday, etc. ~, towards ~ Towards morning the snow turned to rain. PHRASES first thing in the morning I'll see to it first thing in the morning. | from morning till night, good morning He didn't even say ‘Good morning’. | morning, noon and night It's all she talks about, morning, noon and night (= all the time). | the rest of the morning
Oxford Collocations Dictionary