whatever helps you sleep at night
Believe what you want to believe if it makes you feel better.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“If you think that excuse is true, whatever helps you sleep at night.”
“You can tell yourself that you did not really need that promotion, but whatever helps you sleep at night.”
“He justified his questionable business ethics as a necessary evil, to which his partner replied, whatever helps you sleep at night.”
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bank night
An event where patrons are enticed to buy entry tickets into some venue, for example a movie theater, with the anticipation that they will be entered into a drawing to win an amount of money if their ticket is drawn and they are on-site at the time of the winning.
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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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call it a night
To go to bed to sleep.
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call it an early night
To go to bed or cease one's activities earlier in the evening than usual.
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can't help
To be unable to avoid a situation, or stop something from happening.
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creature of the night
A prostitute.
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cry for help
Acting out as a means of displaying a subconscious desire for attention or help.
Last updated August 10, 2026