/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fox’s Sleep (A)
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A sleep with one eye on the qui vive. Assumed indifference to what is going on. (See above.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.