French hours

French hours
 n.— «He works two days a week, commuting from Palm Springs to Toronto, where the Grosso-Jacobson series is produced. “We work French hours up there,” he said. “You go to work in the afternoon and work through eight hours.”» —“Off Camera” by Carol Burton Terry Melville, Newsday (N.Y.) Oct. 26, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)