Idiom
whatever helps you sleep at night
Meaning
Believe what you want to believe if it makes you feel better.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“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.”
Examples
simple
“If you think that excuse is true, whatever helps you sleep at night.”
contextual
“You can tell yourself that you did not really need that promotion, but whatever helps you sleep at night.”
complex
“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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