forty winks
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (idiomatic) A short sleep, an extra sleep, a nap.
- As you're so tired, why not try to catch "forty winks" before you leave?.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16
- ...who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.
Synonyms[edit]
- (short sleep): nap, shut-eye, twenty winks
Translations[edit]
short sleep
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