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sleep in

/sleep-in/US // ˈslipˌɪn //

入睡,睡在,睡觉的时候,睡眠中

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : live-in.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who sleeps in at a place of employment.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

  • Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

  • Lee would stay up late, unable to sleep from the pains he had in his back.

  • Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

  • The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

  • At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

  • Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

  • The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.

  • So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.

  • Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.