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Sleep and Bed
Phrasal vebs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to go to bed (informal). | TO CRASH OUT - I'm tired. I'm going to crash out. |
| to unintentionally fall asleep for a short time. | TO DOZE OFF - It was so warm in there and the lecture was so boring that I keopt dozing off. |
| to gradually and gently fall asleep. | TO DRIFT OFF - I was just starting to droft off when Chuli, my cat, jumped on to my bed and bit my toes. |
| to fall asleep because you are very tired. | TO FLAKE OUT - I flaked out in front of my computer. |
| to go to bed (informal. generally used in the first person. | TO HIT THE SACK - I think I´m going to hit the sack. I've got to get up early tomorrow morning. |
| to intentionally stay in bed and get up at a later time than normal. | TO LIE IN / TO HAVE A LIE_IN - You look tired. Why don't you lie in tomorrow? It's Saturday after all. |
| to fall asleep, often when you are sitting down (on a train, for example, or in an armchair. | TO NOD OFF - I don't know what the score was. Unfortunately, I nodded off halfway through the match. |
| to spend the night moving and changing position in bed and trying to get to sleep. | TO TOSS AND TURN ALL NIGHT - She spend all night tossing and turning - she couldn't get what he had said off her mind. |
| not to sleep at all, specially used for not sleeping all night. | NOT TO GET A WINK OF SLEEP/NOT TO SLEEP A WINK - What with the baby crying and Michael snoring like a steam train, I didn't get a wink of sleep all night. |
| to be sleeping deeply (to be dead to the world: to be so deeply asleep that almost nothing will wake you) | TO BE SOUND/FAST ASLEEP - By the time we got home, the kids were fast asleep in the back of the car. |
| to sleep the night at another person's house | TO SLEEP OVER (AT SB'S HOUSE) Mum, can I sleep over at Sophie's housetonight? |