I need some beauty sleep before my big day tomorrow.
beauty sleep
idiomOriginally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
Origin
disputed originFrom beauty (noun) + sleep (noun).
After working late all week, I am going to bed early to catch up on my beauty sleep.
She excused herself from the party early, claiming she required a generous amount of beauty sleep to recover from the week's exhaustion.
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age before beauty
A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.
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beauty queen
The female winner of a beauty contest.
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big sleep
Death.
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cry oneself to sleep
To cry until or to fall asleep.
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eat, breathe, and sleep
To devote one's time obsessively to.
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eternal sleep
Death
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fox sleep
Feigned sleep while actually alert.
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go to sleep
To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.