beauty sleep (English, noun)
expansion: beauty sleep (countable and uncountable, plural beauty sleeps)
expansion: (idiomatic)
Senses:
glosses: Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
glosses: Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap.
tags: humorous
idiomatic
uncountable
Forms:
form: beauty sleeps
tags: plural
form: beauty-sleep
tags: alternative