Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, superb live performances and their overt left-wing political activism.

"Burning the midnight oil" means working late into

Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, superb live performances and their overt left-wing political activism.

"Burning the midnight oil" means working late into the night, by means of an oil lamp. "Smells of the midnight oil" characterizes poetry or prose studded with laboured literary allusions and arcane vocabulary.