Sleep for a while, mostly during the day
A small sleep
A short slumber
A snooze
A nap
Catnap
Put your head down
The bank manager caught the security guard while taking forty winks on duty.
I must have to get my forty winks today since I didn’t sleep well since couple of days.
Being on the duty of a security person – catching forty winks is strictly prohibited.
John generally has forty winks going to work early in morning on the bus.
Robert always like to catch forty winks after the lunch.
When the pilot was catching forty winks – the plane was about to be crashed.
I wonder how do the people can get forty winks when they are on the plane.
Sassi was highly regretted for those forty winks when Baloch people kidnapped her lover Punnu.
Mirza had not be killed by the brothers of his girlfriend if he didn’t catch forty winks at that time.
There is no origin for this idiom
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definition
Common phrase that has a specific meaning.