winks

winks

Some tiny amount of sleep. Always preceded by a quantifier, such as "a few" or "some." Also used in the phrase "forty winks," meaning a nap or short sleep. I'd like to get a few winks before we leave, so I'm going to go lie down for a little while. She's had a very long day at work, so she's catching forty winks upstairs before dinner.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

winks

n. some sleep. (see also forty winks.) I gotta have some winks. I’m pooped.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a wink of sleep
  • sleep tight
  • sleep tight!
  • sleep around the clock
  • lose sleep about (someone or something)
  • lose sleep over (someone or something)
  • (I've) got to go home and get my beauty sleep
  • beauty
  • got to go home and get my beauty sleep
  • kip down
References in classic literature
the tip o' the mornin' to ye, Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, mavourneen; and it's a nate gintleman that ye are, sure enough, and it's mesilf and me forten jist that'll be at yur sarvice, dear, inny time o' day at all at all for the asking." And it's not mesilf ye wud have to be bate in the purliteness; so I made her a bow that wud ha' broken yur heart altegither to behould, and thin I pulled aff me hat with a flourish, and thin I winked at her hard wid both eyes, as much as to say, "True for you, yer a swate little crature, Mrs.
If anybody had winked at her as Henrietta Petowker, it would have been indecorous in the last degree; but as Mrs Lillyvick!
Mr Venus winked his chronically-fatigued eyes both at once, and adjusting the kettle on the fire, remarked to himself, in a hollow voice, 'She'll bile in a couple of minutes.'
Continuing to wink his red eyes both together--but in a self- communing way, and without any show of triumph--Mr Venus folded the paper now left in his hand, and locked it in a drawer behind him, and pocketed the key.
And if Dowlas was to go and stand, and say he'd never seen a wink o' Cliff's Holiday all the night through, I'd back him; and if anybody said as Cliff's Holiday was certain sure, for all that, I'd back him too.
He winked, as he spoke, at two of the company, who were known officially as the "bassoon" and the "key-bugle", in the confidence that he was expressing the sense of the musical profession in Raveloe.
The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who winked; while the beer-drinkers, chiefly men in fustian jackets and smock-frocks, kept their eyelids down and rubbed their hands across their mouths, as if their draughts of beer were a funereal duty attended with embarrassing sadness.
Noirtier, being deprived of voice and motion, is accustomed to convey his meaning by closing his eyes when he wishes to signify `yes,' and to wink when he means `no.' You now know quite enough to enable you to converse with M.
"And you do not wish me to go away without fulfilling your original intentions?" The old man winked violently.
The old man looked at her for an instant with an expression of the deepest tenderness, then, turning towards the notary, he significantly winked his eye in token of dissent.
'"You may say that, Tom," replied the old fellow, with a very complicated wink. "I am the last of my family, Tom," said the old gentleman, with a melancholy sigh.
HARRY WINKS is set for an England recall after being given personal assurances about his international future by Gareth Southgate.
Harry Winks has warned Liverpool they "should worry" about Tottenham this season.
HARRY WINKS has claimed Tottenham will show a new arrogant streak as they hunt down Manchester City and Liverpool in the Premier League next season.
AS Harry Winks sat in the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, holding court before the Champions League Final, he probably had to pinch himself.