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sleep camel

idiom

A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.


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Related idioms8entries
  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

    camel through the eye of a needle

    Hyperbole to illustrate something that is impossible to do or to make happen.

  4. 04

    cry oneself to sleep

    To cry until or to fall asleep.

  5. 05

    eat, breathe, and sleep

    To devote one's time obsessively to.

  6. 06

    eternal sleep

    Death

  7. 07

    fox sleep

    Feigned sleep while actually alert.

  8. 08

    go to sleep

    To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.

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