to sleep in
55
3.0
- phrasal verb
- /sliːp ɪn/
:
dormir hasta tarde
- Adam has Tuesdays off, and I would have much rather slept in and stayed in his arms.
- sleep in late
- mornings we sleep in
- sleep in on weekends
But I got to sleep in, which was glorious.
- But I got to sleep in, which was glorious.
- What's the latest you've slept in the past year?
- You know, my, my wife Mindy sleeps in very late.
Examples
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But I got to sleep in, which was glorious.
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I so wish I could sleep in, but instead, 6:30 will come all too soon.
Blog text (17) -
We'll let you sleep in.
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So I wanted to sleep in and write the day off as crap.
Blog text (3) -
It felt so good to sleep in my own bed.
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Kevan tells us why you should sleep in on the day after Thanksgiving.
Blog text (2) -
They wanna sleep in the trailer, let them sleep in the trailer.
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I slipped back into bed, rolled over, patted Clockie, and decided to sleep in.
Fiction book (1992) -
I love to sleep in on Saturday mornings when I don't have any commitments.
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After a long week, she decided to sleep in and enjoy some extra rest.
Synonyms
29
2.0
Sleep longer than you meant to and wake up late
16
2.4
To stay in bed later than usual in the morning
Antonyms
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'sleep' (rest) and 'in' (indicating location) give a partial clue — the phrase suggests sleeping at/inside a place — but the specific occupational sense of residing in an employer's house is a specialized, lexicalized use not directly predictable. Many learners will instead interpret 'sleep in' as 'stay in bed late', so knowing the parts is insufficient to guarantee the intended meaning without exposure.
Etymology
Sleep in comes from the simple image of staying in bed later than normal; you are literally 'in' bed while other people are up, so it means 'to sleep later than usual'.