My foot went to sleep because I sat on it.
go to sleep
idiomTo be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
I sat cross-legged for so long that my leg went to sleep and started tingling.
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.
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all dressed up and nowhere to go
Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.
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all systems go
Everything is ready.
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as you go
While one is doing (something); as one progresses.
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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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boldly go where no man has gone before
To break new ground.
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come and go
To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
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cry oneself to sleep
To cry until or to fall asleep.