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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.Discover More
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"I couldn't sleep a wink, not if my life depended on it, that I couldn't."
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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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