Meaning of beauty-sleep | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep.’”

“And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep. I replied that his loss of beauty-sleep was rather improving to a man of so high complexion; and that I, being none of that quality, must pay half-quality prices; […]”

“At first he was quite peevish. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."”

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