sleep off
Britishverb
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There’s no way Zoë Kravitz is sleeping off six doses of mushrooms before presentation time, and it feels likely that Griffin Mill might possibly be hospitalized the next time we see him.
From Salon
"I have spent most of my time in bed just trying to sleep off the pain in my head," she told the BBC in 2018, just before she travelled to Germany for the operation.
From BBC
Team discipline seemed to have drained away, with stories of the Brazilian being left to get his head down and sleep off the night's excesses rather than knuckle down in training.
From BBC
Thinking he may be sleeping off a night out, there was no initial concern.
From BBC
A woman who went to bed to sleep off a migraine woke up to find her accent had changed to a Geordie one.
From BBC
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