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单词 could do something in one's sleep
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could do something in one's sleep
a. With possessive pronouns, frequently in adverbial phrases, as in his sleep, etc. Also, in hyperbolic phrase could do something in one's sleep and variants.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > do easily
to take in one's stride1832
to do something (standing) on one's head1872
to toss off1874
could do something in one's sleep1953
c825 Vesp. Ps. lxxv. 5 Slypton slep heara & nowiht gemoettun.
c1100 Canterb. Ps. lxxv. 6 Hie slepon sleep vel swefne hiræ.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 328 Him þoȝte þe ymage in is slep tolde him is chance.
c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 188–9 This man out of his sleepe for feere abrayde; But whan that he was wakened of his sleepe [etc.].
c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1908) 64 The aungel of god apered to Joseph in his slepe.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6259 When he of his slepe wakynd.
1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 131 In my very sleepe, I was adrempt in this wise.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iii. 9 To hinder and break our sleep.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 3 His sleep Was Aerie light, from pure digestion bred. View more context for this quotation
1712 M. Henry Daily Commun. God (1822) 372 That will break a worldly man's heart, which will not break a godly man's sleep.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 100 She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep.
1852 M. Arnold Tristram & Iseult 59 Hark! he mutters in his sleep.
1953 E. Coxhead Midlanders viii. 187 There's no difficulty. We could make them in our sleep.
1970 J. Braine Stay with me till Morning i. 9 His job didn't claim much of his energy. He could, as they say, do it in his sleep.
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