oh dark thirty

短语

发音

AU

别名

0-dark-thirty oh-dark-thirty zero dark thirty dark thirty

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implying an unpleasant time to be awake).

    习语

    I had to get up at oh dark thirty to catch a plane.

词源

From U.S. military terminology, in which hours before 10:00 am are prefixed with a zero, read as "oh", as in 0530, oh five-thirty, for 5:30 am.

来源:wiktionary