sleep tight
to sleep very well
TRANSLATION
tief Schlafen
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"SLEEP TIGHT, breathe easy - While you sleep, they eat - A bedding material that kills the tiny creatures that can cause an asthma attack has been developed by the UK textile company Courtaulds. The novel fabric contains substances that are harmless to humans but lethal to the house dust mite."
(New Scientist Magazine - August 1998)
(New Scientist Magazine - August 1998)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
"Sleep tight" comes from Shakespearean England via thousands of children's bedtimes. William Shakespeare first gave "tightly" the meaning "effectively" or "well" in his 1598 play The Merry Wives of Windsor, where Falstaff asks a servant to deliver "these letters tightly".
By the late eighteenth century the word tight was also used as an adjective and it was in this form that it became part of the rhyming couplet
"Good night. Sleep tight", probably dreamed up by an anonymous mother to wish her young child a pleasant sleep.
Note: tight can also mean "drunken" or "mean with money" but not in connection with sleeping!
"Sleep tight" comes from Shakespearean England via thousands of children's bedtimes. William Shakespeare first gave "tightly" the meaning "effectively" or "well" in his 1598 play The Merry Wives of Windsor, where Falstaff asks a servant to deliver "these letters tightly".
By the late eighteenth century the word tight was also used as an adjective and it was in this form that it became part of the rhyming couplet
"Good night. Sleep tight", probably dreamed up by an anonymous mother to wish her young child a pleasant sleep.
Note: tight can also mean "drunken" or "mean with money" but not in connection with sleeping!
