sleep like a log

Idioms  

1. Also, sleep like a top. Sleep very soundly, as in I slept like a log, or She said she slept like a top. Both of these similes transfer the immobility of an object to that of a person who is sound asleep (since a top spinning quickly looks immobile). The first dates from the late 1600s; the variant is newer.

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sleep like a log

Many will have experienced it – that feeling at 3pm when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep like a log.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

He would fall asleep at supper, and go in and sink down on his cot and sleep like a log.

From King Coal : a Novel by Upton Sinclair

Fosterdyke went to his cabin, to sleep like a log.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Thank you, Ethan; you are very kind, and I am tired enough to sleep like a log.

From Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People by Oliver Optic

I live on brown bread and cheese and goat's milk and sleep like a log in shepherds' huts.

From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Charles Belmont Davis