go to sleep
informalDefinition
› If your arm or leg has gone to sleep, you cannot feel or control it, often because you have been sitting or lying for too long in a strange position.Disorders and diseases of the heart and blood
(Definition of go to sleep from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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