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lose sleep over
Idioms and Phrases
Worry about, as in It's too bad the experiment failed, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it . This expression, often put negatively, alludes to actual insomnia caused by anxiety. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Mr Tugendhat probably won’t lose sleep over this slip-up – he won’t have personally written the press release, and he’s got 10 of the Scottish Conservatives’ 31 MSPs backing him.
Very few seemed to lose sleep over the murder of tens of thousands of Chechens in Russia's “counter-insurgency” war of the 2000s, which Human Rights Watch called "unparalleled in the area since World War II for its scope and destructiveness."
In other words, if teams sleep on him now, they may lose sleep over him later.
“I’m super anxious and neurotic and I lose sleep over writing,” he says.
Normally, missing out on interviews wouldn’t be something Giamatti would lose sleep over.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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