beauty sleep
Americannoun
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sleep before midnight, assumed to be necessary for one's beauty.
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any extra sleep.
noun
Etymology
Origin of beauty sleep
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Last month the 60-year-old tearfully announced she was leaving the station and her "lovely listener" so that she could "catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2022
"Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep, nine if you’re ugly," she said in 2011.
From Fox News • Dec. 12, 2021
Because of this, the whole world was waiting on the edge of its seat for a result while Nevada got some beauty sleep.
From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2020
The Doctors A man who weighed 639 pounds returns to show his dramatic weight loss; faking beauty sleep.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2017
Lucinda is still sleeping her beauty sleep that will last all morning long.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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