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Significats de forty winks en anglès

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A short period of sleep, especially one during the day time.

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      English idiom meaning to take a nap.

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            Ús de forty winks en anglès
            1
            It usually comes when she is taking what she calls forty winks.
            On the Firing Line
            2
            Later, maybe, when I've had my grog, I'll take my forty winks-
            Lewis Rand
            3
            Run away, and think of me as enjoying my forty winks.
            Aunt Judith: The Story of a Loving Life
            4
            Take forty winks, you poor child, it will freshen you up.
            Nightfall
            5
            What the hell were you doing back there, catching forty winks?
            The skin trade
            6
            You-all take forty winks while dad fixes up some supper.
            The Sheriff's Son
            7
            About 3 o'clock I went below to take forty winks.
            The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
            8
            We'll have forty winks, and then go on again.
            At the Back of the North Wind
            9
            The men tumbled down to catch forty winks.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 / A Magazine...
            10
            I'm going to try and get forty winks.
            The Green Mummy
            11
            Captain Glenn, tired out, announced that he was going below to get " forty winks."
            The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers
            12
            The old lady turned her forty winks into four hundred, and slept outright, curtained in the shadows.
            Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
            13
            I shall most likely drop off to sleep, and enjoy forty winks in this very comfortable chair.
            A Rock in the Baltic
            14
            And old Jolyon had but forty winks.
            Five Tales
            15
            I thought you were with mother, so I took forty winks after I got those girls off.
            Eight Cousins
            16
            I think I'll try for forty winks.
            Max
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