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the hour when one day quietly hands the keys to the next.
means The middle of the night, twelve o'clock, the precise moment when one calendar day ends and the next begins.
from A plain old compound from Old English 'midniht' — literally 'mid' (middle) plus 'niht' (night). Both halves trace back through the Germanic family: 'mid' is a cousin of Latin 'medius' and Greek 'mesos' (middle), while 'night' shares deep roots with Latin 'nox' and Greek 'nyx'. So the word is exactly what it says — the night's midpoint — and it has stayed that honest for over a thousand years.
- zero hour
- Clocks read 00:00, the true start of the day
- witching hour
- Folklore's peak time for ghosts and bad decisions
- doomsday clock
- Scientists measure human extinction in minutes to midnight
- date shift
- Legal contracts and birthdays flip the instant it strikes
- sun's mockery
- In polar summers, midnight still blazes with daylight
midnight mass — christmas eve service at churches worldwide, celebrated at 12:00 am on december 25th
midnight sun — phenomenon in arctic/antarctic regions where sun remains visible 24 hours, occurs in places like tromsø, norway and barrow, alaska
midnight express — 1978 film about american billy hayes imprisoned in turkey, based on true events