dog sleep
See also: dogsleep
English
Noun
- A shallow sleep; a pretended sleep. Dogs seem to sleep with "one eye open."
- 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Barnaby Rudge:
- nodding in his dog sleep
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References
- Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.
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