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

“I think forty winks for me, also,” the Professor presently remarked, feeling himself to be de trop.

From Burning Sands by Weigal, Arthur

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)

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

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah