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Sleep off   /slip ɔf/   Listen
verb
Sleep  v. t.  (past & past part. slept; pres. part. sleeping)  
1.
To be slumbering in; followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
2.
To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. (R.)
To sleep away, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time.
To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.





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"Sleep off" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the little army of Maurice was allowed to sleep off its fatigue. With the dawn of the 24th January, a reconnoitring party, sent out from the republican camp, discovered that Varax, having no stomach for an encounter, had given his enemies the slip. Long before daylight ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... a little later, he was somewhat surprised to find his stateroom alight,—surprised, because he had rather expected that Mr. Iff would elect to sleep off ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance
... bowl of sack and proceeded to drink with my allies in the hope that I might make them too drunk to follow us. Within half an hour I discovered that I was laboring at a hopeless task. There was great danger that I would be the first to succumb; so I, expressing a wish to sleep off the liquor before the ladies should return, made my escape from the tap-room, mounted my horse, and galloped furiously after Dorothy and Madge. John was riding by the coach ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... a medicine, Lord Fareham, but your own wine; and I want you to drink a long draught of it, and then, who knows but you may sleep off ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... glass of water for the gin, which he drank. Captain McClintock was satisfied, and overcome by his last potion, he soon sank back on the locker, and dropped asleep. With the assistance of the mate he was put into the berth in his state-room, to sleep off ...
— Work and Win - or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise • Oliver Optic


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