twenty winks

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twenty winks pl (plural only)

1. (idiomatic) 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.

   • 2003 November 3, “Twenty winks offered to drivers”, in BBC.co.uk‎:

     Twenty winks offered to drivers

   • 2004 November 10, Annalisa Barbieri, “Twenty winks”, in The Guardian‎:

     Twenty winks [title]