'To burn the midnight oil' means to:
Asleep very early
Bcook food at night
Cwork or study late into the nightCORRECT
Dwaste fuel
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Why the answer is C, and why the others tempt you.
The idiom comes from using an oil lamp late at night to keep working or reading.
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