take forty winks

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"Well, I'll take forty winks, if you'll promise to keep a good lookout."

From The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch by Stratemeyer, Edward

I believe it was a habit with him, for many years, thus to take "forty winks" at the dinner-table.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various

Your master is going to take forty winks.

From 813 by Leblanc, Maurice

Then she announced she was going to take "forty winks," as she had been up most of the night and needed sleep.

From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner

It soon becomes the usual thing to throw one's self down on an old mattress, tuck a blanket over you and take forty winks.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister