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

It's no good your blinking like an owl and pretending you weren't taking forty winks.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

And now, if you’ll excuse me, Miss Commerell, I’ll go and take my usual forty winks, if those ‘kinders’ will let me.”

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

“I want to catch forty winks now,” he said.

From Swamp Island by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)