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Sleep off   /slip ɔf/   Listen
verb
Sleep  v. t.  (past & past part. slept; pres. part. sleeping)  
1.
To be slumbering in; followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
2.
To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. (R.)
To sleep away, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time.
To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.





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"Sleep off" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had gone to visit a planter who had a daughter; but this statement did not appear to be true, for he had put in an appearance early, as the Havana was making fast to the first prize. He had left his men in the barrack to sleep off their fatigue and apple jack after their unaccustomed labor in loading the steamer. He had not so much as posted a sentinel, who might have enabled him to defeat the invaders of the port, even with ...
— On The Blockade - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat • Oliver Optic
... great pains to a little distance, there is no sign that the interruption has made any lasting impression on it. It looks more as if it took it all as an unpleasant dream or nightmare, which it would be best to sleep off as soon as possible. If one shoots a single seal, this may happen without those lying round so much as raising their heads. Indeed, we could open and cut up a seal right before the noses of its companions without this making ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... and that don't improve me. Put my supper in the little off-room below, and have the truckle-bed made. I shall sleep there to-night, and maybe to-morrow night; and if I can sleep all day to-morrow, so much the better, for I've got trouble to sleep off, if I can. Keep the house quiet, and don't call me. Mind! Don't call me. Don't let anybody call me. Let me ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... quarreling over a girl; his arm was pretty strong by then, and he set to work to clean out the place, and ended in a cell in the police station. The police station being crowded to the doors, and stinking with "bums," Jurgis did not relish staying there to sleep off his liquor, and sent for Halloran, who called up the district leader and had Jurgis bailed out by telephone at four o'clock in the morning. When he was arraigned that same morning, the district leader had already seen the clerk of the court and ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair
... perhaps read this, because we are always interested in how the other fellow does it. To the few who are intending an exploration of the dark continent this concentration of a year's experience may be valuable. Remember to sleep off the ground, not to starve yourself, to protect yourself from the sun, to let negroes do all hard work but marching and hunting. Do these things your own way, using your common-sense on how to get at it. You'll be ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White


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