forty winks
a short sleep, a nap
TRANSLATION
Nickerchen
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Winston Churchill was said to have worked constant 18 hour days throughout the war years. He achieved this by taking forty winks every hour or so."
Did you
know?
A wink is a blink of the eye. Forty winks are therefore a short nap or sleep.
You may come across another English idiom with the same meaning "a bit of shut eye".
If you are interested in the psychology of blinking you might like to read my short article at the end of today's mail.
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Hopefully, you got more than forty winks at the weekend.
You may come across another English idiom with the same meaning "a bit of shut eye".
If you are interested in the psychology of blinking you might like to read my short article at the end of today's mail.
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Hopefully, you got more than forty winks at the weekend.
