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Word for: Sleep until some bad situation/feeling subsides or ends

English Language & Usage Asked on January 28, 2021

When one waits until some difficulty has passed, we say "wait something out". Is there a word/expression in English for sleeping until your hunger, pain, or negative emotions subside?

One Answer

There is

Sleep it off

meaning to

to stop the bad effects of having too much of something by sleeping for as long as it takes to end those effects

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For hunger specifically there’s a very modern phrase I’ve heard

Having sleep for dinner

But it’s so new that I can’t really find many references for it other than Urban Dictionary and Reddit/Twitter usage.

Answered by William Theisen on January 28, 2021

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