eternal sleep
Death
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“The old dog finally passed away into his eternal sleep.”
“After a long and difficult illness, the writer peacefully drifted into his eternal sleep surrounded by his family.”
“The ancient king, weary from decades of war and political strife, eventually succumbed to the eternal sleep within the quiet walls of his palace.”
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beauty sleep
Originally, 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.
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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 triangle
A relationship involving three persons (usually two women and one man or two men and one woman) among whom there are conflicting and competing attachments of a romantic or emotional nature.
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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.
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one could do it in one's sleep
Said of something that can be done very easily or effortlessly.
Last updated August 10, 2026