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

And then aloud she said, “All right, honey, I’ll take forty winks and then get up and come down to the tennis court.”

From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell

And in 500 days you would have got down to the classical forty winks.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

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)