# Titles and phrases that include the middle of a measure of time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570 "2010-07-13T18:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/1 "2010-07-13T18:38:53Z")
And boy, did I have to think how to phrase that title so it made some sense! I’m looking for things like Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Beware the Ides of March.” Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/2 "2010-07-13T18:49:29Z")
Anything with the word ‘midnight’. Midnight Hour, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/3 "2010-07-13T18:50:48Z")
“High Noon” works, too. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/4 "2010-07-13T19:51:11Z")
“How Summer Day” by It’s a Beautiful Day. “Eight Days a Week” – the Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” – the Beatles “Five O’Clock World” – The Vogues There are many songs which have days of the week in them: “Stormy Monday,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “She Gets Paid on Friday,” “Saturday Night,” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/5 "2010-07-13T20:11:58Z")
Anything involving the full moon, the full moon being the middle of the lunar month. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/6 "2010-07-13T20:16:07Z")
Middlemarch. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/7 "2010-07-13T20:23:08Z")
Spindoctors What time is it? 4:30 It’s not late, It’s early, early, early ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/8 "2010-07-13T20:35:37Z")
25 or 6 to 4 Includes everything from 3:34 to 3:35 ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/9 "2010-07-13T20:53:28Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “How Summer Day” by It’s a Beautiful Day. > “Eight Days a Week” – the Beatles > “A Hard Day’s Night” – the Beatles > “Five O’Clock World” – The Vogues > There are many songs which have days of the week in them: “Stormy Monday,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “She Gets Paid on Friday,” “Saturday Night,” etc. I think you misunderstood the OP’s request. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/10 "2010-07-13T21:03:45Z")
[A Midwinter’s Tale](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113403/) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/11 "2010-07-13T21:06:29Z")
_Half a Life_, V.S. Naipaul. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/12 "2010-07-13T21:09:03Z")
Billy Joel’s [The River of Dreams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM) features the phrase “In the middle of the night …” lotsa times. So many, in fact, that I thought the song was called “In the Middle of the Night.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/13 "2010-07-13T21:51:55Z")
The Moody Blues’ “Tuesday Afternoon” is in the middle of the week. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/14 "2010-07-13T21:52:02Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Anything involving the full moon, the full moon being the middle of the lunar month. New moon would also qualify. Anything with “high tide” or “low tide” in it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/15 "2010-07-13T22:04:51Z")
some phrases: “middle-aged” and “midlife crisis” referring to a person’ life “The Middle Ages”; see also “medieval” “half past” referring to a time, 5:30 = half past five “midterm” for an exam halfway through the grading period. a “semester” is half of an academic year, so the “semester break” is the middle of the year. “hump day” (generally Wednesday) is the middle of the work week ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titles-and-phrases-that-include-the-middle-of-a-measure-of-time/546570/16 "2010-07-13T22:42:41Z")
[_America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After (The American Moment)_](http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Half-Century-United-Foreign-American/dp/0801850118), Thomas J. McCormick.