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sleep rough

idiom

Of a homeless person, to sleep outdoors, particularly as opposed to sleeping in a shelter or similar.


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  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

    cry oneself to sleep

    To cry until or to fall asleep.

  4. 04

    cut up rough

    To become angry; to make a fuss.

  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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