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Asleep Phrases

136 phrases and expressions related to "asleep".

Phrases

And miles to go before I sleep (from a poem by Robert Frost)
As dead as a dodo
As dead as a doornail
As dead as mutton
Asleep at the switch
Asleep at the wheel
Asleep with Jesus
At the dead of night
Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
Back from the dead
Beauty sleep
Better dead than red
Better off dead
Bo Peep (Cockney rhyming slang for sleep)
Brain dead
Bring out your dead
Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
Caught napping
Chivalry is not dead
Cut out the dead wood
Cut someone dead
Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
Dead air
Dead and buried
Dead and gone
Dead cat bounce
Dead cinch
Dead duck
Dead easy
Dead end
Dead from the neck up
Dead giveaway
Dead heads
Dead heat
Dead in the water
Dead issue
Dead letter
Dead loss
Dead man walking
Dead meat
Dead men tell no tales
Dead men's shoes
Dead of night
Dead of winter
Dead on arrival
Dead on time
Dead presidents
Dead reckoning
Dead ringer
Dead to rights
Dead to the world
Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
Dead white male
Dead wood
Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
Don't lose any sleep over it
Down among the dead men
Drop dead
Drop dead gorgeous
Drop dead list
Drop down dead
Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
Fall asleep
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Flogging a dead horse

Given up for dead
Go to sleep
God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
Good and dead
Goodnight, sleep tight
Half asleep
Hang by the neck until dead
He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
I could do it in my sleep
I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
I wouldn't be caught dead
In the arms of Morpheus
In the land of Nod
It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
Kicking dead whales down the beach
Kill stone dead
Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
Knock 'em dead
Left for dead
Let the dead bury the dead
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Loud enough to waken the dead
Miles to go before I sleep
More dead than alive
Never speak ill of the dead
Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
Numbered with the dead
Over my dead body
People in here are trying to sleep
Play dead
Put to sleep
Raise the dead
Roll over and play dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
Sleep around
Sleep easy in your bed
Sleep hygiene
Sleep it off
Sleep like a baby
Sleep like a log
Sleep like a top
Sleep of the just
Sleep on it
Sleep rough
Sleep sweeter, Bournvita (Bournvita advertising slogan)
Sleep tight
Sleep walking
Sleep with
Sleep with one eye open
Sleepy head
The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart movie)
The City of Dreaming Spires (Nickname of the city of Oxford)
The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
The King is dead, long live the King
The departed
The dreaming spires (an idealised images of the colleges of Oxford)
The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
Wanted, dead or alive
We never sleep (Pinkerton's Detective Agency advertising slogan)
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
You make your bed, you sleep in it
You're a long time dead