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

“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 Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

And in 500 days you would have got down to the classical forty winks.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

After I have had my "forty winks" and my nerves forget that baby, I shall remember it all.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Swan, Miranda Eliot