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lose sleep over
Idioms and Phrases
Worry about, as in It's too bad the experiment failed, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it . This expression, often put negatively, alludes to actual insomnia caused by anxiety. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
As for the social media announcement by Alalshikh, chairman of Riyadh Season, he opted for jungle metaphors rather than corporate speak: 鈥淒on鈥檛 mess with the lion 鈥 4 fights for Canelo with Riyadh Season 鈥 The Deal is done 鈥 A Lion doesn鈥檛 lose sleep over opinion of a sheep 鈥 Fear the lion not the jungle.鈥
Mr Tugendhat probably won鈥檛 lose sleep over this slip-up 鈥 he won鈥檛 have personally written the press release, and he鈥檚 got 10 of the Scottish Conservatives鈥 31 MSPs backing him.
Very few seemed to lose sleep over the murder of tens of thousands of Chechens in Russia's 鈥渃ounter-insurgency鈥 war of the 2000s, which Human Rights Watch called "unparalleled in the area since World War II for its scope and destructiveness."
In other words, if teams sleep on him now, they may lose sleep over him later.
鈥淚鈥檓 super anxious and neurotic and I lose sleep over writing,鈥 he says.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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