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

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 J. Sadger

"Why, after all he went through today, he'll sleep like a log till mornin'."

From The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

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

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

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