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sleep off

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sleep off
vb
(tr, adverb) Informal to lose by sleeping to sleep off a hangover
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Verb1.sleep off - get rid of by sleeping; "sleep off a hangover"
lose - fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
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? sleep off
vt sep (inf) hangover etcausschlafen; to sleep it offseinen Rausch ausschlafen; cold etcsich gesund schlafen; to sleep off one’s lunchein Verdauungsschläfchen nthalten


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Take her right up, Alec; I've got the hot water ready, and after a nice bath, she shall have a cup of my sage tea, and be rolled up in blankets to sleep off her cold," answered the old lady, cheerily, as she bustled away to give orders.
It will be an hour before ‘Duke and the Major can sleep off Mrs.
It is said that the intimacy of this acquaintance began in his habitually resorting to that secret place, to lock-out the Cloisterham boy-populace, and sleep off fumes of liquor: he having ready access to the Cathedral, as contractor for rough repairs.
 
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