Travel
at the crack of dawn
very early in the morning
If you do something at the crack of dawn, you do it very early in the morning, around sunrise.
Hear it in real life
What time is your train?
Six o'clock, so I have to get up at the crack of dawn.
We set off at the crack of dawn to reach the mountain before it got hot.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We left in the crack of dawn.
Say: We left at the crack of dawn.
Use the preposition “at” in this fixed time expression.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
leave at the crack of dawn; wake up at the crack of dawn
Your turn: say it out loud
We set off at the crack of dawn to reach the mountain before it got hot.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
at the crack of dawn
very early in the morning
“We set off at the crack of dawn to reach the mountain before it got hot.”
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