Where does “明け暮れる” come from?

明け暮れる (Japanese) comes from Japanese 暮れる — get dark, for night to fall; for the season to...

明け暮れる (Japanese): to spend all of one's time doing

Definitions

  1. to spend all of one's time doing

Ancestry of “明け暮れる”, step by step

明け暮れる traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 暮れる

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese暮れるget dark, for night to fall; for the season to...

via Japanese 明け

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese明けdaybreak
Every word from Japanese 暮れる