forty winks
Example Sentences
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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
From every doorway the crowds hurried forth after dinner, scorning the sacred forty winks.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
And in 500 days you would have got down to the classical forty winks.
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
We'll talk about it after I've had my forty winks.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
