Origin of "sleep like a baby" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Oct 1, 2013 · Encryption. 99 1 2 7. 2. A child has no worldly worries to keep awake or lose sleep over, and so can sleep peacefully. A man who has no worries can as well "sleep like a baby". – Kris. Oct 1, 2013 at 13:03. 2. After Bob Dole was defeated in the 1996 Presidential campaign, he said "I slept like a baby.
Origin of "sleep like a log" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Apr 12, 2019 · The idiom sleep like a log, ‘sleep well, soundly’, does not emerge in English until the beginning of the 19th century, first in American, then British sources, at least among those readily available online: 11 [Dec. 1808, London]. Slept like a log till ten, and then was called. This atmosphere is certainly narcotic.
"expecting a baby" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Mar 13, 2013 · As GEdgar said, anybody can expect a baby, just as anybody can expect a rainshower. Parents, unsurprisingly, use the phrase most often. Dan was correct, but could have explained better. Yes, in English the idiom is for both parents to say "we are expecting [our first/a baby...]". Indeed, if there are (old enough) children in the family, they ...
syntactic analysis - Is the verb "sleep" transitive or intransitive ...
Oct 1, 2015 · Sleep can be both intransitive and transitive, as defined in Merriam-Webster. We need to be very flexible in determining whether one verb is transitive or intransitive as sleep has a transitive verb usage, but it cannot be passivized. "to provide sleeping accommodations for: the boat sleeps six" It cannot be passivised, but still is a ...
idioms - Etymology of Sleep like a Top - English Language
12. An explanation for the English expression "sleeping like (or as sound as) a top" is here. Apparently case closed. It derives from the Italian expression Ei dorme come un topo with topo being wrongly translated as top rather than mouse. However mice aren't known for sleeping, only dormice are, and the Italian for dormouse appears to be ghiro.
speech - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
251 1 3 3. One minor difference in meaning -- generally you only use asleep to mean actually unconscious. The word sleeping is sometimes used to refer to being in bed and going to sleep without concern for whether the person has actually fallen asleep yet. So if somebody called for someone, and I knew they were in bed, I'd be much more likely ...
origin of: sleep tight, make sure the bugs don’t bite
Jan 24, 2021 · And in the 1884 book ‘Boating Trips’ by Henry Parker Fellows, a little girl says ‘Good-night. May you sleep tight, where the bugs don’t bite!’. The precise phrase ‘Good-night, Sleep tight, Don’t let the bedbugs bite’ first appears in the 1896 book ‘What They Say in New England: A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions ...
grammar - In "go to sleep", is "to" a particle or a preposition ...
May 13, 2018 · Go to sleep (idiom) is an idiomatic expression, so to of it is not a preposition. See the MW dictionary defines the idiom: 1: to begin sleeping. She lay down on the couch and went (right) to sleep. Tell the kids it's time to go to sleep. After the party, I just wanted to go to sleep.
Slept vs went to sleep - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Nov 27, 2017 · 1. “I slept at 10 pm” feels very awkward to me. In terms of its meaning, it is equivalent to “I was asleep at 10 pm.”. This is importantly different from “I went to sleep at 10 pm” for two reasons. Firstly, it’s only asserting that at 10 pm you were asleep, but doesn’t assert that you had previously been awake the way “I went ...
Appropriateness of "putting my child down to sleep"
Jul 5, 2012 · "Putting to sleep" can also mean to euthanise but, in my experience, carries less of that connotation than "putting down". If you do want to use the word down, you could say "laying my child down to sleep". If you want to avoid the whole "putting to sleep" ambiguity altogether, you could say "putting my child to bed".