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sleep like a log
Idioms and Phrases
Also, sleep like a top . Sleep very soundly, as in I slept like a log , or She said she slept like a top . Both of these similes transfer the immobility of an object to that of a person who is sound asleep (since a top spinning quickly looks immobile). The first dates from the late 1600s; the variant is newer.Example Sentences
“If you look at little kids, they run around all day, and they sleep like a log at night,†says Erik Musiek, a neurologist and a director of the Center on Biological Rhythms and Sleep at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
"Before the lockdown, I would sleep like a log. But now it's the opposite," the 26-year-old tells Newsbeat.
Then I go back to New Zealand, watch the sunset, sleep like a log, and stop drinking half a dozen cups of a coffee a day.
And I always sleep like a log!
Fosterdyke went to his cabin, to sleep like a log.
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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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