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sleep a wink, not
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Idioms and Phrases
Not sleep at all, as in I couldn't sleep a wink last night . This expression, in which wink alludes to closing the eyes for sleep, was first recorded about 1325.Advertisement
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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