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fall asleep
Idioms and Phrases
Go to sleep; also, cease paying attention. For example, As soon as the lights were dimmed he fell asleep , or His lectures are so dull that I fall asleep . The literal usage, which uses the verb fall in the sense of “succumb,†dates from about 1300; the figurative is several centuries newer. Also see asleep at the switch .Example Sentences
Silvanna fell asleep on the car ride home, and when she arrived home she stayed asleep and was transitioned into her bed, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Alice says her friend normally tolerated alcohol well, but this time became drunk very quickly and appeared to fall asleep on the floor.
I remember the night on Skid Row when, before falling asleep, he grabbed two sticks on which he had written the names Beethoven and Brahms.
Catch some “Columbo†The nicest thing that kind of lulls me to sleep is when my husband is watching TV and I fall asleep to him doing that.
He eventually fell asleep, according to the complaint.
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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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