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
"Mother says he needs his beauty sleep," Belet answered, and to give her credit, she didn't sound entirely happy with her mother's strategy in finding Nergal.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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