秉烛待旦

Explanation: Dan: Good morning. Hand-held lighted candles to be dawn. 　　Usage: -Linked; as the predicate attribute; describe the feeling of urgency 　　Source: Ming Shinai "Water Margin" section 95 back: "Song Jiangbing candle to be Dan." 　　Examples: (Qu)-type plow very glad, and commanded the rest of a veteran into the wine, ~ and (shots) with the open ground the ghost town off the night. (Zhu Dongrun "Jang mass communications," Chapter XIV) Thesaurus:  sit up and wait for daybreak, burn the midnight oil, through out the night, Ti towards dry evening