have a night of it

English

Phrase

have a night of it

1. To spend a night uncomfortably or unpleasantly, such as in pain, under duress, in illness, etc.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `One might think from the look of you that you had been having a night of it.' I only groaned by way of answer. I had, indeed, been having a night of it, such as I hope never to have again.