twenty winks
English
Noun
- a very short sleep, half as long as forty winks.
- 1931, Henry Berman, Life Demands! And Other Plays
- All right, go along to the doting mother, while I stretch out on the settle and chance twenty winks of sleep before Andrew turns up. I never sleep well on the train, as you know.
- 1931, Henry Berman, Life Demands! And Other Plays
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