saw wood
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saw wood (third-person singular simple present saws wood, present participle sawing wood, simple past sawed wood, past participle sawed wood or sawn wood)
- (idiomatic) To snore loudly.
- 1998 January 23, Diane Chang, “Monsignor Kekumano is now in heaven”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
- Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood—and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.
- 2009, Elizabeth Haydon, The Dragon's Lair, →ISBN, page 125:
- "You keep all of Mouse Lodge awake sawing wood every night. You're a fine one to complain about someone else snoring."
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idioms meaning "to snore"
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- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.