forty winks

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We probably all know about counting sheep, or letting sleeping dogs lie, but the facts about forty winks in the animal kingdom are still subject to debate.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2014

Then I managed to get forty winks or so of sleep around sunrise.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Edith yawned again, and prepared to retire to the den for forty winks.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Your master is going to take forty winks.

From 813 by Leblanc, Maurice

I've a heavy day before me, and must e'en steal forty winks.'

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis