Idiom
sleep a wink
Meaning
To sleep at all.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I did not sleep a wink last night.”
“The loud music from the party next door meant I did not sleep a wink all night.”
“Disturbed by the relentless anxiety of the impending deadline, he tossed and turned until dawn, unable to sleep a wink.”
Examples
simple
“I did not sleep a wink last night.”
contextual
“The loud music from the party next door meant I did not sleep a wink all night.”
complex
“Disturbed by the relentless anxiety of the impending deadline, he tossed and turned until dawn, unable to sleep a wink.”
Origin
From Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" Act III Scene IV.
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