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Definition of Sleep off
1. Verb. Get rid of by sleeping. "Sleep off a hangover"
Definition of Sleep off
1. Verb. To get rid of (a pain, illness, condition) by sleeping. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleep Off
Literary usage of Sleep off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents by James Martineau (1888)
"... all his energy to immutable methods and degrees, he abdicates his personal
prerogative, and permits his will to sleep off into a continuous automatism. ..."
2. The Bride of the Nile: A Romance by Georg Ebers (1887)
"Go and rest; sleep off your pain, and I — I will try to forget. — If you could
but see the turmoil in my soul! — But farewell till our next, more friendly ..."
3. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"To sleep off a headache, bad humor, foire passer le mal de tête—la mauvaise
humeur—endormant To sleep off intoxication, to sleep one's self sober, ..."
4. Hospitals, Dispensaries and Nursing: Papers and Discussions in the by John Shaw Billings, Henry Mills Hurd (1894)
"It is exhausting to mind and body caring for the insane, and for those who do so
to be obliged to sleep off the wards, even if the patients near by are ..."
5. Hospitals, Dispensaries and Nursing: Papers and Discussions in the by John Shaw Billings, Henry Mills Hurd (1894)
"It is exhausting to mind and body caring for the insane, and for those who do so
to be obliged to sleep off the wards, even if the patients near by are ..."
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