forty winks
noun [plural] informalDefinition
› a short sleep during the day: He usually has forty winks going home on the train.Sleep and sleeping
(Definition of forty winks noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- bye-byes noun
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