forty winks betydelse and definition

Exempel på forty winks

• This unofficial holiday encourages you to catch forty winks and enjoy the health and productivity benefits of napping.

• Then she announced she was going to take "forty winks," as she had been up most of the night and needed sleep.

• Every second man was detailed to mount guard, while the remainder fought for forty winks, then relieved guard.

• I believe it was a habit with him, for many years, thus to take "forty winks" at the dinner-table.

• He scarcely had taken forty winks when he heard a rat-tat-tatting on the rainbow window and a rap-rap-rapping on the rainbow door.

• I entered my stateroom, figuring on catching forty winks, and there she was, seated in my big chair, smiling at me.

• The rest of the circus men preferred to turn over for a possible "forty winks" more.

• Now he was going to catch forty winks.