burning the candle at both ends

Murray adds that he didn’t know how to say “no” in a healthy way and that he was burning the candle at both ends.

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"I'd been burning the candle at both ends, looking back on it," says Megan McCann, 31, from west London.

She wrote in a letter to the City Council she is “burning the candle at both ends,” with serving on the council, wanting to be more present with her family and starting a new day job within the last year.