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

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

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

From every doorway the crowds hurried forth after dinner, scorning the sacred forty winks.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Now he was going to catch forty winks.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth