forty winks
Example Sentences
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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
“I mean those two chaps that caught me fast asleep under Paul’s rug on the back seat, taking forty winks when I ought to have kept wide awake.”
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
It's no good your blinking like an owl and pretending you weren't taking forty winks.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
We'll talk about it after I've had my forty winks.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
