OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 57848

sleep rough

/ˌsliːp ˈɹʌf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dormir al raso • dormir al sereno
Of a homeless person, to sleep outdoors, particularly as opposed to sleeping in a shelter or similar.
I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, [...] —sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those…
[...] I was quite taken out of myself and vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage and see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; and I said, "I will start from the p…
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