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slept like a log
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does anyone know why we say we slept like a log?
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sleep like a log/rock
To sleep very deeply.
[Middle English slepe, from Old English sl�p. See slb- in Indo-European Roots.]
Also, sleep like a top. Sleep very soundly, as in "I slept like a log", or "She said she slept like a top". Both of these similes transfer the immobility of an object to that of a person who is sound asleep (since a top spinning quickly looks immobile). The first dates from the late 1600s; the variant is newer. (With thanks to The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms).