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

“Can’t you let a fellow catch forty winks without sending out the riot squad?”

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

I've a heavy day before me, and must e'en steal forty winks.'

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis