go to sleep

1. Literally, to begin sleeping. I'm sorry, but Kristin has already gone to sleep—can I take a message? I plan to go to sleep early after staying up so late last night. I don't want to go to sleep this early, but I have to leave for the airport by 3 AM!

2. Of a limb or other part of the body, to lose feeling, usually because one has sat or leaned on it for too long. Ugh, wait a second, my foot has gone to sleep—I can't get up just yet. I've been sitting like this for so long that my leg has gone to sleep. Sorry, I dozed off in this weird position, and my arm went asleep.

3. slang Die; drop dead. Used as an imperative indicating contempt or dismissal. Go to sleep, Warren. No one cares. A: "Nice haircut, loser." B: "Go to sleep already, will ya?" I'm not cleaning up your mess! Go to sleep!

ˌgo to ˈsleep

(informal) (of your leg, arm, hand, etc.) be unable to feel anything in your leg, etc. because it has been in a particular position for a long time

See also: go, sleep, to

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