beauty sleep
Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce…Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
» Mary took her beauty sleep before the big party.
AlanF_US · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(idiomatic, uncountable)Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
(humorous, idiomatic, uncountable)Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap.
Schönheitsschlaf
- sleep before midnight
Examples
3 sentencesMary took her beauty sleep before the big party.
I should turn in. I need my beauty sleep you know.
Don't stay up too late, sweetheart. Your body needs its beauty sleep.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
From beauty (noun) + sleep (noun).From beauty (noun) + sleep (noun).
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Forms
plural: beauty sleepsSynonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.