To walk in one's sleep → pasearse dormido ( habitually) → ser sonámbulo To talk in one's sleep → hablar en sueños To send sb to sleep (= bore) → dormir a algn To put an animal to sleep ( euph) (= kill) → sacrificar un animal I shan't lose any sleep over it → eso no me va a quitar el sueño To have a little sleep → dormir un rato, descabezar un sueño To have a good night's sleep → dormir bien (durante) toda la noche To go to sleep → dormirse, quedarse dormido (= limb) → dormirse I couldn't get to sleep → no podía dormirme or conciliar el sueño He fell into a deep sleep → se quedó profundamente dormido Wake abruptly, with an alarm clock which breaks up their sleep like the blow of an ax -Milan KunderaĬollins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 sleep.Sunk into sleep like a stone dropped in a well -John Yount.Slumber fell on their tired eyelids like the light rain of spring upon the fresh-turned earth -W.
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Slept like he’d gone twelve rounds with a pro -Geoffrey Wolff.(While the Weary Blues echoed through his head, he) slept like a rock or a man that’s dead -Langston Hughes.(He usually) slept like a corpse -Ring Lardner.Slept almost smiling, as if she had a secret -William Mcllvanney.Slept a great deal, as if years of fatigue had overtaken him -Peter Matthiessen.Sleep like a kitten, arrive fresh as a daisy -Slogan, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.Sleep like a dark flood suspended in its course -Percy Bysshe Shelley.Sleeping like a stone in an empty alcove of the cathedral -Clive Cussler.Sleep fell on her like a blow -Hortense Calisher.Sleep covered him like a breaker -Harris Downey.Sleep came over my head like a gunny sack -Ross Macdonald.Sleep as smooth as banana skins -Diane Wakoski.Not sleeping but dozing awake like a snake on stone -Malcolm Cowley.Nodding, like a tramp on a park bench -Robert Traver.Lying awake like a worried parent -Robert Silverberg.Lies asleep as softly as a girl dreaming of lovers she cannot keep -F.Kept falling in and out of it like out of a boat or a tipping hammock -Rose Tremain.I want sleep to water me like begonias -Diane Wakoski.A somewhat different version, “Slept like any top” appeared in the German children’s story, Struwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffman. This simile has outlived the play from which it is taken, The Rivals, as a colloquial expression. I shall sleep like a top -Sir William Davenant.Heavy with sleep, like faltering, lisping tongues -Boris Pasternak.Felt himself falling asleep like gliding down a long slide, like slipping from a float into deep water -Oakley Hall.Fell into a sleep as blank as paving-stone -Patrick White.Emerges from slumber like some deep-sea creature hurled floundering and gasping up into the light of day by a depth-charge -Francis King.Drowsy as an audience for a heavy speech after an even heavier dinner -Anon.Doze and dream like a lazy snake -George Garrett.The simile which begins the story, Blue Transfer, continues with, “A stranger to myself, a stranger to my life.” Come from sleep as if returning from a far country -Mary Hedin.Came out of a deep sleep slowly, like a diver pausing at each successive level -Norman Garbo.Samuel Pickwick) burst like another sun from his slumbers -Charles Dickens (Paul lay in his berth) between wakefulness and sleep, like a partially anesthetized patient -John Cheever.Awoke … like some diver emerging from the depths of ocean -Francis King.As sound asleep as a coon in a hollow log -Borden Deal.As near to sleep as a runner waiting for the starter’s pistol -J.The simile completed McGuane’s novel, The Sporting Club, Asleep and dreaming, like bees in cells of honey -Thomas McGuane.
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