sound asleep
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective[edit]
sound asleep (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Sleeping still and silently.
- Synonym: fast asleep
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
- When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
Translations[edit]
sleeping still and silently
|