OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 60603

sleep of the just

/ˈsliːp əv ðə ˈdʒʌst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
el sueño de los justos
A deep and worry-free sleep.
Make your mind easy, Percival. Sleep, my son, the sleep of the just; and see what I will do for you when daylight comes to help us both.
Then—Smith went to bed, and slept the sleep of the just, with not a glimmering of an idea that he was not the unselfishest and lovingest of husbands.
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