The child was fox sleeping to avoid doing chores.
fox sleep
idiomFeigned sleep while actually alert.
She kept fox sleeping while her roommates argued, hoping they would leave the room soon.
The guard remained perfectly still, fox sleeping as he waited for the intruder to step into the light.
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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 sleep
Death
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fox in the henhouse
Someone untrustworthy placed in a position of trust in which they will be harmful, damaging or detrimental for their own personal gain.
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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.