Yet the cool chamber into which the traveler was shown proved so restful that the "forty winks only" which he intended were prolonged till sunset.
I'm going to turn in for forty winks.
Something has stolen that last precious "forty winks" away from you.
And in 500 days you would have got down to the classical forty winks.
The justice was having forty winks when they entered his office.
Merely taking his usual forty winks after dinner, which repast had consisted of four beef-stews.
The men tumbled down to catch forty winks.
Now he was going to catch forty winks.
