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
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
For the next few days, though, she just hopes to unwind with a routine that sounded not very different from her training regime: hitting the gym and getting in her beauty sleep.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2013
She performed a few high kicks, stretched her long limbs, then settled under a tree to get her beauty sleep.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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