catch forty winks
have forty winks
take forty winks

"It's a real gift to be able to catch forty winks any time.

You can both go back and catch forty winks."

How easy it would be to put his head down on the desk and close his eyes and catch forty winks.

Do you want to catch forty winks?"

I've got to catch forty winks.

It wouldn't hurt to catch forty winks.

"I will just catch forty winks to calm my nerves," he told Cugel.

Could she have slept, she would've had no qualms about waking him to watch while she caught forty winks.

"Mister, I'm going to catch forty winks.

"Caught me catching forty winks.

"After we catch forty winks."

In a captured Italian sleeping bag - filched from a mule down near Polava by my ever-attentive orderly Reiher - I tried to catch forty winks.

He looked sleepy, as if he was somewhat bored by the whole proceedings, yet Morton knew he loved people to think him lazy, a good-for-nothing slouch, who spent his days in slumber and his nights catching forty winks.

As soon as they jump out of the airplane they'll probably start daydreaming about their girlfriends, take a few hits from their pocket flasks, catch forty winks, and before you know it they'll all pile into the ground at a couple of hundred miles an hour!"

Later, I went across the street and got a room for myself, then I hunted up the town barber and treated myself to a haircut and a shave, changed my clothes, and then stretched out on the bed to catch forty winks, as the saying is.

"Now you take my advice and go and have forty winks.

We'll have forty winks, and then go on again."

Tom smiled because his friend had had forty winks every hour since eleven o'clock.

I've just been having forty winks.

"I don't know as I mightn't have forty winks," said the giantess.

I'm supposed to be resting, but after I'd had forty winks, I felt a lot better, so I toddled over here.

'Having forty winks were we?'

I was up all night and sitting here in the car where it's warm, I kept wanting to take forty winks.

I'm goin' to take forty winks.

I'll warrant there isn't a soldier on the ship who is not more concerned with taking forty winks than guarding a cargo of miserable convicts!"

--and I knew that everything was going smoothly, I went into the wheel-house and took forty winks."

To take forty winks is to take a nap for a short period of time (usually not in bed), or to take a short sleep during the day.

On seeing her, however, he roused up and said with a smile that ended in a gape "I thought you were with mother, so I took forty winks after I got those girls off.

'Why, sir, it is not much of a mend,' Hannah remarked calmly, 'an 'ole no larger than the tip o' me tongue, and what might come about if a gentleman could 'ave took forty winks in his club chair with 'is pipe or cigar in 'is mouth.