beauty sleep

短语

n. <口>午夜前几小时的酣睡眠; 小睡

发音

UK /ˈbjuːti ˌsliːp/
AU
US /ˈbjuti ˌslip/

词形变化

beauty sleeps 复数

别名

beauty-sleep

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.

    习语 不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap.

    幽默 习语 不可数 可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

sleep nap

词源

From beauty (noun) + sleep (noun).

来源：wiktionary