forty winks
四十问,四十媚娘,四十秒,四十秒微笑
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Definitions
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Informal.
- : a short nap.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’
I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
Almost forty years later, it seems unlikely this will ever be the case.
Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
We were on it for forty minutes of the film, a considerable part of our schedule.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
It was Wednesday night; over forty men sat down to the house-dinner at the Pandemonium Club.
The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.