lose sleep over, to
lose sleep over someone or something
and lose sleep about someone or somethingFig. to worry about someone or something a lot, sometimes when one should be sleeping. (Often used with any and the negative.) Yes, Kelly is in a little bit of trouble, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over her. Don't lose any sleep over the matter. I refuse to lose sleep about it.
See also: lose, over, sleep
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
lose sleep over
Worry about, as in It's too bad the experiment failed, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. This expression, often put negatively, alludes to actual insomnia caused by anxiety. [First half of 1900s]
See also: lose, over, sleep
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
lose sleep over, to
To worry about. This expression, often used negatively—that is, something not to lose sleep over, dates from the mid-twentieth century. The novelist Norman Mailer used it in Advertisements for Myself (1959), “It’s not the sort of thing I lose sleep over.”
See also: lose, sleep
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- bird has flown, the
- beware of
- beware of (someone or something)
- be rough on (someone or something)