sleep with
To have sexual intercourse with.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“They decided to sleep with each other after their third date.”
“He felt guilty because he had slept with his best friend's partner while they were away.”
“The scandal erupted when the public discovered that the politician had been sleeping with his assistant for several years.”
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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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cry oneself to sleep
To cry until or to fall asleep.
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eat, breathe, and sleep
To devote one's time obsessively to.
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eternal sleep
Death
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fox sleep
Feigned sleep while actually alert.
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go to sleep
To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
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one could do it in one's sleep
Said of something that can be done very easily or effortlessly.
Last updated August 10, 2026