Mattress Phrases

Phrases

• And miles to go before I sleep (from a poem by Robert Frost)
• And so to bed
• Apple pie bed
• As white as a sheet
• As you make your bed so must you lie on it
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Beauty sleep
• Bed and board
• Bed and breakfast
• Bed bath
• Bed blocking
• Bed down
• Bed of roses
• Bed out
• Beyond the blanket
• Blanket of snow
• Bo Peep (Cockney rhyming slang for sleep)
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Cheat sheet
• Clean sheet
• Cry into your pillow
• Cushion the blow
• Die in your own bed
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Don't lose any sleep over it
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
• Face like an unmade bed
• Get into bed with
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Go to bed with
• Go to sleep
• Goodnight, sleep tight
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• I could do it in my sleep
• Keep a clean sheet
• Life is a bed of roses
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Make your bed and lie in it
• Mattress money
• Miles to go before I sleep
• Never go to bed on an argument

• Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
• On the blanket
• People in here are trying to sleep
• Pillow biter
• Pillow fight
• Pillow talk
• Put to sleep
• Reds under the bed
• Scent to bed (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
• Singing from the same hymn sheet
• Sleep around
• Sleep easy in your bed
• Sleep hygiene
• Sleep it off
• Sleep like a baby
• Sleep like a log
• Sleep like a top
• Sleep of the just
• Sleep on it
• Sleep rough
• Sleep sweeter, Bournvita (Bournvita advertising slogan)
• Sleep tight
• Sleep walking
• Sleep with
• Sleep with one eye open
• Take it to the mattresses
• Take to your bed
• Take up your bed and walk
• Test bed
• The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
• Time for bed (A catchphrase from The Magic Roundabout)
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• Uncle Ned (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• We never sleep (Pinkerton's Detective Agency advertising slogan)
• Wet blanket
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• Would not get out of bed for
• Wrong side of the blanket
• You made your bed, now lie in it
• You make your bed, you sleep in it