"Sleep like a top" nghĩa là gì?

"Sleep like a top" -> nghĩa là ngủ say, ngon giấc.

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Take me. Apart from a body blow in 2011, I’ve had 73 virtually trouble-free years. Goat’s milk and pork, a regular Bajan ham cutter and shark oil for the flu is all it takes, in my opinion. No bad back, arthuritis, diabetus, not a single ache or pain. Sleep like a top, can read or drive without glasses. Better Health Magazine even wanted me on the cover but the fear was, once I showed my 6-pack abs, only the Predator would risk coming behind. A man in shape.

It seemed to work. “I have waited a week so as to write with certainty about the effect which this place produces,” he told his mother in August 1904. “It is wholly good. I sleep like a top and have not ever felt in better health. Really it is a wonderful situation. A large and comfortable four storied house — complete with . . . every luxury that would be expected in England, is perched on a gigantic mountain spur 7,000ft high, and is the centre of a circle of the most glorious snow mountains in Switzerland. The air is buoyant and the weather has been delightful.”

Misrestit may be a comparatively rare word in Scots, but the condition’s effects are well-attested in the language. If you’re misrestit then you may feel the need to flype (“fall down for short rest” – a north-eastern word), feel maffled “half asleep, dazed”, or find yourself nid-nodding or gantin “yawning”. You might find that you fa aff the spaik “collapse with weariness”, or feel the need to take a dot “nap” at inconvenient times. It’s much nicer to sleep as sound as a peerie “sleep like a top”.

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