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fox sleep

idiom

Feigned sleep while actually alert.


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  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    big sleep

    Death.

  3. 03

    cry oneself to sleep

    To cry until or to fall asleep.

  4. 04

    eat, breathe, and sleep

    To devote one's time obsessively to.

  5. 05

    eternal sleep

    Death

  6. 06

    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.

  7. 07

    go to sleep

    To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.

  8. 08

    one could do it in one's sleep

    Said of something that can be done very easily or effortlessly.

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