twenty winks
English
Noun
twenty winks (uncountable)
- 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
Further reading
- BBC news item 4 November 2003
- Guardian article 10 November 2004