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Sleep out   /slip aʊt/   Listen
Sleep out

verb
1.
Work in a house where one does not live.  Synonym: live out.






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"Sleep out" Quotes from Famous Books



... threw myself on the bed; but, on that occasion, slumber caused its presence to be awaited longer than usual. By the time I fell asleep the east was beginning to grow pale, but I was evidently predestined not to have my sleep out. At four o'clock in the morning two fists knocked at ...
— A Hero of Our Time • M. Y. Lermontov

... awhile," he said. "The smoke might be too much for her, and the paper rustles so. We'd better let her have her sleep out." ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... it," said the trooper; "bed's a grand thing for nearly everything. I never knew how grand it was till I came on this business and had to sleep out here on the stones. You haven't begun to find out what it is to be away ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn

... the man; and then I heard him turn over and settle down to go to sleep again. I'd like to have gone over there and kicked him, but I didn't. It was getting late, and I thought, all things considered, that I might just as well let him have his sleep out." ...
— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger

... Garden Market and slept under cover. There were about thirty of us. The police moved us on, but we went back as soon as they had gone. I've had a pen'orth of bread and pen'orth of soup during the last two days—often goes without altogether. There are women sleep out here. They are decent people, mostly charwomen and such ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth


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