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View synonyms for beauty sleep

beauty sleep

noun

, Informal.
  1. sleep before midnight, assumed to be necessary for one's beauty.
  2. any extra sleep.


beauty sleep

noun

  1. informal.
    sleep, esp sleep before midnight
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of beauty sleep1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

Last month the 60-year-old tearfully announced she was leaving the station and her "lovely listener" so that she could "catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".

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But, she said, she had had to step down "to catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".

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Vanessa Feltz has announced she is leaving BBC Radio 2 next month, saying it's time to catch up on a decade of beauty sleep.

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But, she said she had to step down "to catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".

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“Why are you up so early anyway? Don’t you need your beauty sleep?”

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