beauty sleep

noun

Informal.

1. sleep before midnight, assumed to be necessary for one's beauty.

2. any extra sleep.

beauty sleep

noun

1. informal,  sleep, esp sleep before midnight

Word History and Origins

Origin of beauty sleep¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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".

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But, she said, she had had to step down "to catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".

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Vanessa Feltz has announced she is leaving BBC Radio 2 next month, saying it's time to catch up on a decade of beauty sleep.

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But, she said she had to step down "to catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".

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“Why are you up so early anyway? Don’t you need your beauty sleep?”

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