be out for the count
Definition
› to be sleeping, especially heavily: It looks like Ben's out for the count.Sleep and sleeping
(Definition of be out for the count from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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be one in a million idiom
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be one thing after another idiom
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be one/another of life's great mysteries idiom
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be out for/after sb's scalp idiom
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be out in left field idiom
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be out of line with sth idiom
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be out of sorts idiom
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be out of the question idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- bye-byes noun
- catch/cop/get some z's idiom
- comatose adjective
- doss verb
- doze off phrasal verb
- drift off phrasal verb
- flake out phrasal verb
- kip noun
- kip verb
- oversleep verb
- shuteye noun
- sleep noun (NOT AWAKE)
- sleep over phrasal verb
- sleep verb
- sleeper noun (PERSON)
- slept verb
- snooze verb
- somnambulism noun
- soundly adverb (SLEEP)
- your beauty sleep idiom
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