forty winks
English
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Noun
- (idiomatic) A short sleep, an extra sleep, a nap.
- Synonyms: nap, shut-eye, twenty winks; see also Thesaurus:shut-eye
- As you're so tired, why not try to catch forty winks before you leave?
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- […] 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.
Translations
short sleep
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