It’s World Sleep Day today and in its honour we’ve been trying to think of as many different ways of saying ‘sleep’ or ‘fall asleep’ as possible. Judging from the number of sleep synonyms we found, us English speakers must surely love our sleep!
doze (off)
nap
power nap
cat nap
forty winks
go to bed
drop off
snooze
have a kip
get some shut-eye
beauty sleep
off to the land of nod
nod off
siesta
have a zizz
crash
hit the sack
turn in
conk out / zonk out
catch some zzz’s
Cockney rhyming slang
Feather and flip / Lucky Dip = kip
Bo Peep / Sooty and Sweep = sleep
If you can think of any more, or if you know of any interesting ways of saying ‘sleep’ or ‘fall asleep’ in any other language, then please let us know.
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