forty winks

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We probably all know about counting sheep, or letting sleeping dogs lie, but the facts about forty winks in the animal kingdom are still subject to debate.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2014

Then I managed to get forty winks or so of sleep around sunrise.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Nothing is so likely to start a day of depression than failure to get up promptly, lounging around with forty winks here and there, reading in bed, and the like.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

The fact is, the day is warm and she is sleepy, and she knows she will not get her forty winks unless he takes himself out of the way.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

You haven’t had forty winks for about four nights.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram