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

When one is on the go as she must be all day, one should sleep like a log.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

Every day I was up at dawn, clearing, planting, working on my house, and at night when I threw myself on my bed it was to sleep like a log till morning.

From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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 Optic, Oliver

I work hard, sleep like a log, and get a couple of sets of tennis or a round of golf on Saturdays and Sundays.

From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney

Well, I'll undertake they won't disturb me to-night, for I am dog-tired and mean to sleep like a log.'

From The Jolliest School of All by Brazil, Angela