twenty winks
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Noun
[edit]- (idiomatic) A very short sleep, half as long as forty winks.
- 1931, Henry Berman, Life Demands! And Other Plays:
- All right, go along to the doting mother, while I stretch out on the settle and chance twenty winks of sleep before Andrew turns up. I never sleep well on the train, as you know.
- 2003 November 3, “Twenty winks offered to drivers”, in BBC.co.uk[1]:
- Twenty winks offered to drivers
- 2004 November 10, Annalisa Barbieri, “Twenty winks”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Twenty winks [title]