sleep on
verbeEn français : la nuit porte conseil
- To postpone (a decision) at least overnight, to avoid making a hasty choice. · I like the idea, but let me sleep on it before we go ahead.· There's no chance to sleep on the matter. You have to decide now.
- To miss or ignore; to underappreciate; to underestimate the quality of something. · People are really sleeping on that restaurant down the street.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, on.
Dans la bibliothèque
We must leave him here to sleep on forever, and perhaps he will dream that he has found courage at last.”
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
“My dear fellow,” replied Albert, with perfect ease of mind, “remember, for the future, Napoleon’s maxim, ‘Never awaken me but for bad news;’ if you had let me sleep on, I should have finished my galop, and have been grateful to you all my life.
My dear fellow, let them sleep on, if they are asleep; let them grow pale in their drowsiness, if they are disposed to do so, and pray do you remain in peace, who have no remorse to disturb you.”
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