take forty winks

Example Sentences

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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

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

"I think I'll take forty winks," she hummed; "—twenty for the front face, and twenty for the back."

From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Gates, Eleanor

I take forty winks myself every now and then, but I can wake up if a fly jumps on the table.

From Archie's Mistake by Wyatt, G. E.