词组 | sleep |
释义 | sleep [slept, slept, sleeping] sleep around sleep around informal to have sex with a lot of different people without having a serious relationship with any of them: ▪ I don't sleep around any more, not since I met Jack. ▪ A guy who's spent his youth sleeping around isn't going to find it easy to settle down to married life. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑screw around spoken informal sleep in sleep in to sleep later than usual in the morning, especially because you do not have to go to work or school: ▪ We usually sleep in on Sunday mornings. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑lie in sleep off sleep sth off • sleep off sth to sleep until you do not feel ill any more, especially after drinking too much alcohol: ▪ I suppose they're sleeping off the effects of last night's party. sleep it off ▪ The old girl's had a drink too many. Leave her there and let her sleep it off. sleep on sleep on sth to delay making a decision about something until the next day or later sleep on it ▪ There's no hurry. I'm going to sleep on it, and tomorrow I'll decide what to do. sleep out sleep out to sleep outside: ▪ We used to sleep out under the stars on warm summer nights. sleep over sleep over informal to sleep at someone else's house for a night: ▪ Is it okay if I sleep over at Jim's place tonight? ▪ If you don't want to drive home, you're welcome to sleep over. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay over sleep-over n C a party at which children or young people stay the night at someone's house: ▪ One night Mary Jo went to a sleep-over at a friend's house. sleep through sleep through sth to continue sleeping while something is happening and not be woken by it: ▪ How did you manage to sleep through all the noise? ▪ I don't remember much about the play - I must have slept through most of it. sleep together sleep together if two people are sleeping together, they are having a sexual relationship with each other: ▪ When did you find out that Betty and your husband were sleeping together? ▪ After their baby was born, she and Jonathan stopped sleeping together. ■ SIMILAR TO: have sex sleep with sleep with sb not passive to have sex with someone: ▪ I'm not going to tell you how many women I've slept with. ■ SIMILAR TO: have sex with |
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