take forty winks
Example Sentences
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I’ll take forty winks here until she’s ready.”
From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"Well, I'll take forty winks, if you'll promise to keep a good lookout."
From The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch by Edward Stratemeyer
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 G. E. Wyatt
Your master is going to take forty winks.
From 813 by Maurice Leblanc
And then aloud she said, “All right, honey, I’ll take forty winks and then get up and come down to the tennis court.”
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Nell Speed
