dog sleep

See also: dogsleep

English

Etymology

Dogs seem to sleep with one eye open.

Noun

A shallow sleep; a pretended sleep.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Barnaby Rudge:
  nodding in his dog sleep

Translations

A shallow sleep

Bulgarian: дрямка (bg) f (drjamka)

References

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.

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