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go to sleep

idiom
Meaning

To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.


Examples
SIMPLE

My foot went to sleep because I sat on it.

CONTEXTUAL

I sat cross-legged for so long that my leg went to sleep and started tingling.

COMPLEX

After kneeling on the hard floor for an hour, he found that both of his legs had gone to sleep, making it difficult to stand up immediately.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all dressed up and nowhere to go

    Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

  2. 02

    all systems go

    Everything is ready.

  3. 03

    as you go

    While one is doing (something); as one progresses.

  4. 04

    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.

  5. 05

    big sleep

    Death.

  6. 06

    boldly go where no man has gone before

    To break new ground.

  7. 07

    come and go

    To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.

  8. 08

    cry oneself to sleep

    To cry until or to fall asleep.

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