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Go to sleep   /goʊ tu slip/   Listen
Go to sleep

verb
1.
Prepare for sleep.  Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in.  "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"






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"Go to sleep" Quotes from Famous Books



... very hot, and soon Mr. Fox began to feel his sack was heavy, and at last he thought he would lie down under a tree and go to sleep for ...
— The Cock, The Mouse and the Little Red Hen - an old tale retold • Felicite Lefevre

... stanchions of the awning, while the little girl was carried away by the doctor, who laid her in a berth, gave her a cup of tea, which she drank obediently to his orders, but evidently regarded as being extremely nasty, and she was then told through the interpreter to go to sleep until her sarong was dried. A couple of hours later she was on deck again in her native garb and ornaments. The interpreter pointed out to her the two midshipmen who had rescued her, and she at once went up to them, and, slipping her hands into ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... sleeper. Even in their ordinary sleep they can be taken from the nest and handled without waking them. Toward winter they acquire a great deal of fat, and stow away a vast amount of provision around about their nest, and then go to sleep within; but they rarely awake to use this food unless a very warm period comes around before the regular breaking ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various

... out, "O captain, captain! what's going to happen us?" The captain started up, and listened, and then burst into a fit of laughter. "Why, you young jackanapes, they are only some of your brothers, the monkeys, holding a morning concert," said he. "Go to sleep again; don't rouse me up ...
— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston

... he wanted to go to sleep again, 'gang and mak luve till her. Nae lass 'll think o' meat as lang 's ye do that. That 'll ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald


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