sleep in
/ˌslip ˈɪn/ verb- To sleep late; to go on sleeping past one's customary or planned hour. · On a rainy Saturday, after a busy week at work, he closed the curtains and decided to sleep in.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, in. · She didn't come home last night — her bed hasn't been slept in.
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Two days ago some repairs were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in which she slept.
Oh, I’m very glad you’ve come, even if it would have been nice to sleep in a wild cherry-tree.
Barry told Diana that we might sleep in the spare-room bed.
And then we couldn’t sleep in the spare room after being promised.
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