- LATEN
- Delay
- Fall behind schedule
- Get toward midnight, say
- Approach closing time
- Get on towards midnight
- Grow dark
- Approach midnight
- Pass, as time
- Grow darker
- Get conducive to yawning, say
- Get dark
- Get darker, perhaps
- Near midnight
- Advance toward evening
- Get further into the day
- Approach evening
- Get on toward evening
- Turn toward midnight
- Get further into the night
- Approach nighttime
- Turn towards midnight
- Approach the wee hours
- Make unpunctual
- Cause to miss a deadline
- Become delayed.
- To delay.
- Advance, as the hour.
- Make tardy.
- Become belated.
- Grow towards night.
- Grow less early.
- Get on toward midnight
- Get on into night
- Become tardy
- Cause to be tardy
- Grow toward sunset
- Grow toward evening
- Grow tardy
- Draw toward evening
- Grow past the hour
- Approach bedtime
- Head toward evening
- Go past midnight, maybe
- Go from 11 to 12, say
- Get dark, say
- Go from dawn to dusk
- Round midnight?
- Go past midnight, say
- Near midnight, say
- Approach dark
- Draw toward dark
- Grow nearer to bedtime
- Get dark, formally
- Get closer to bedtime
- Move toward day's end
- Go from afternoon to evening, say
- Grow late
- Hold up
- Get closer to midnight
- Grow closer to dawn
- Go past dusk
