/ˈsliːp laɪk ə ˈlɒɡ/
English idiom, informal. To sleep very deeply and soundly, without waking up.
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How do people use Sleep like a log
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Informal and friendly, and nearly always about yourself or someone you saw sleeping. The past tense does most of the work: “I slept like a log” is the usual answer to “how did you sleep?” You can also catch someone in the act: “Tom is sleeping like a log.”
Sleep like a log
in real sentences
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I slept like a log.
Tatoeba, sentence by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR
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Tom is sleeping like a log.
Tatoeba, sentence by Hybrid, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Sleep like a log
come from?
Nobody has pinned down a first use. The picture explains itself: a sawn log lies exactly where it was dropped and never stirs. The oldest example English Wiktionary quotes is from John Galsworthy’s Villa Rubein (1909), where a worn-out man goes to bed and sleeps like a log, but that’s simply the earliest quotation on the page, not a proven first appearance.
Mistakes learners make with Sleep like a log
Saying “sleep as a log”. The comparison takes “like”, so it’s always “like a log”. Swapping the log for another object from your own language (a stone, a marmot, a dormouse) will be understood, but “log” and “rock” are the English set versions.
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