the.com/crack of noon
the hour heroes rise, having defeated the morning by simply not attending.
means A humorous term for waking up or starting one's day around midday, far later than respectable morning rising would suggest.
from A jokey twist on the much older phrase "crack of dawn," which dates to the 1800s — "crack" here meaning the first break or split of daylight on the horizon. By swapping dawn for noon, the expression slyly admits the sleeper has slept clean through the actual crack of dawn, treating midday as their personal sunrise.
- prime sleep
- REM density peaks in late-morning sleep cycles
- workaholic kryptonite
- defies the 5am-club gospel entirely
- the joke
- plays on the punctual sound of dawn
- brunch born
- the meal that legitimized waking at eleven