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

You haven’t had forty winks for about four nights.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

I shall take forty winks on the sofa here as I have done many times in my tent on campaign.

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick

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

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis