eternal sleep

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eternal sleep

A euphemism for death. Even though she had been sick for months, we were all devastated when our grandmother entered her eternal sleep.

See also: eternal, sleep

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He'll turn, make himself more comfortable, and go back to eternal sleep.

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As soon as he had uttered "to be or not to be" he fell into an eternal sleep.

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When Serge Lifar partnered Spessivtseva at the Paris Opera in 1932, Franco-Russian critic Andre Levinson found him the ideal Albrecht: "[T]he insatiable Giselle whose eternal sleep is troubled by the gentle delirium of dance needs a companion who is transported by the same sublime madness .