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What is the origin of the idiom forty winks?

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What is the origin of the idiom forty winks?

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A person that didn’t sleep a wink is someone who got almost no sleep at all, and to catch 40 winks is to catch a very brief but refreshing nap. The number 40 has a wide range of citations in the Bible and may have some application to this expression.

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