Usually means: Awake at the crack of dawn.
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  1. bright and early: Merriam-Webster
  2. bright and early: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bright and early: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bright and early: Wiktionary
  5. Bright and Early: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. bright and early: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bright and early: Idioms

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  1. bright and early: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  (idiomatic, originally US) (Very) early in the morning.

Similar:
tomorning, first thing, early doors, early, straight out of the chute, ante meridiem, up front, antejentacularly, from the word go, A.M., more...

Opposite:
late, tardy, delayed, behind schedule, sluggish

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Similar:
tomorning, first thing, early doors, early, straight out of the chute, ante meridiem, up front, antejentacularly, from the word go, A.M., more...

Opposite:
late, tardy, delayed, behind schedule, sluggish



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