DCHP-3

sleep in †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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lie in; stay in bed longer than is customary.

Quotations

1935
On Sundays the chief guide usually allows his voyageurs to sleep in, which means that instead of getting up at four o'clock they get up about six-thirty.
1959
Saturday morning the boys and I let Merna and Willa sleep in while we go to see Demi-tasse, as we had made a beauty-parlor appointment for him.