take forty winks
take forty winks
To sleep for a short time; to take a nap. I took forty winks before we left for dinner, so I might actually stay awake now!
See also: forty, take, wink
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- have forty winks
- catch forty winks
- winks
- forty winks
- twenty winks
- not sleep a wink
- sleep a wink, not
- back forty
- a wink of sleep
- catch a snooze