“I just got done working all night, and I am ready to call it a day” is a seemingly contradictory saying about working during the night. “Been working all night on the ‘internet’ side of our business ... time to call it a day” was posted on Twitter on April 5, 2009. “Worked all night so let’s call it a day now” was posted on Twitter on January 20, 2011.
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Fran and Rowena
@Fran_and_Rowena
been working all night on the “internet” side of our business ... time to call it a day
12:07 AM - 5 Apr 2009
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Stephanie Lopez
@sseilopez
Ok I Haven’t been to bed yet, after working all night so i think i’ll call it a day. G’night!
2:45 PM - 29 Oct 2009
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Jules Hercules
@juleshercules
Worked all night so let’s call it a day now
4:42 PM - 20 Jan 2011
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Prnv MENON
@Desi_Gooner
@_LedZep Just worked all night.. time to call it a day..
10:43 PM - 3 Aug 2011
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A.D.E
@Shernard59Davis
After working all night. ,its time for me to call it a day
10:12 AM - 19 Oct 2011
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TID£
@fwtide
Working all night had to call it a day
1:19 AM - 28 Feb 2017 from Birmingham, England
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LOL Tweets™
@lolmgco
I just got done working all all night, and I am ready to call it a day.
9:39 AM - 1 Jul 2017
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t want to listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•“Took my own lunch to work and didn’t buy a coffee today so I should be able to afford to buy a house any day now” (5/8)
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t wanna listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•“Why does inclusiveness include everything except opposing views?” (5/8)
•Entry in progress—BP23 (5/8)
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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