catch forty winks

Now he was going to catch forty winks.

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

“I want to catch forty winks now,” he said.

I often catch forty winks in chapel—that is, if I’m lucky enough to get behind one of the tall girls, where Mrs. Willis won’t see me.

With her head very high she left the desk and sought the Judge in his quiet corner of the piazza, where he sat, newspaper over face, trying to catch “forty winks” after his night of scant sleep.