| 单词 | beauty sleep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeauty sleep beauty sleep n. colloquial (now chiefly humorous) (frequently with possessive) sleep considered necessary to keep a person looking beautiful; extra sleep; (also) any sleep. In early use referring to sleep taken before midnight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > at specific time night sleepOE beauty sleep1828 1828 C. White Herbert Milton III. ii. 69 It [sc. a party] was attended principally by married women, who, if they had daughters out, generally took this opportunity of sending them to seek beauty sleep in bed before ten o'clock. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. xv. 148 A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep’. 1959 M. Spark Memento Mori x. 145 You must get your beauty sleep for the photographer tomorrow. 2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 141 Sorry to disturb your beauty sleep. < as lemmas |
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