Idiom
go to sleep
Meaning
To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My foot went to sleep because I sat on it.”
“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.”
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.”
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