to sleep with one's eyes open
- Fuente de la expresión
- Diccionario nuevo y completo de las lenguas española è inglesa, inglesa y española
- Estructura completa
- To sleep with one's eyes open
- Variantes
- to sleep with one[‘s] eye[s] [open, peeled]
- Contexto
- Have you heard the saying about “sleeping with one eye open”? It’s a bit of metaphoric advice about staying vigilant—and a way to describe very light restless sleep.
But sleeping with eyes open is more than a metaphor. It’s an actual sleep condition—known as nocturnal lagophthalmos—and it is more common than you might think.
- Fuente del contexto
- Psychology Today
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Michael J. Breus Ph.D.
- Título de la fuente
- One in Five People Sleeps With Their Eyes Open
- Año
- 2020
- Web
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sleep-newzzz/202001/one-in-five-people-sleeps-their-eyes-open#:~:text=It's%20a%20bit%20of%20metaphoric,common%20than%20you%20might%20think
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente