fall asleep

Idioms  

1. Go to sleep; also, cease paying attention. For example, As soon as the lights were dimmed he fell asleep, or His lectures are so dull that I fall asleep. The literal usage, which uses the verb fall in the sense of “succumb,” dates from about 1300; the figurative is several centuries newer. Also see asleep at the switch.

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Example Sentences

“You feel like you’re never done. ... We wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning. Do as much as we can. Fall asleep around midnight.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025

Fall asleep with ease thanks to the Emilie Hoyt-founded, Pasadena-based brand’s aromatherapeutic Silent Night Gift Set, which includes a lavender bath bomb, pillow mist, relaxing balm, and silk eye mask.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

Fall asleep on the new, frisky Cowboys, and they will draw on your face with a Magic Marker.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2010

Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by, In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.”

From A Book of Myths by Stratton, Helen

In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or, hearing, die.

From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various

Related Words

• bed down
• doze
• languish
• relax
• snooze