sleep through

verb

informal��(of a baby) to sleep all night without waking up

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Idioms and Phrases

Sleep without waking for a period of time, usually the night, as in At three months many babies have learned to sleep through . [Mid-1900s]

sleep through something . Fail to pay attention, as in We all slept through the explanation and then had trouble getting the machines started .

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Ivor's condition affects about one in every 15,000 people and means he needs constant supervision, struggles to sleep through the night, cannot speak, understand the word "no" and is not toilet trained.

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“Not having racing thoughts, and being able to sleep through the night is a huge win for me,” she told Undark.

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Having a daughter who doesn't sleep through the night, this finding does not surprise me.

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The researchers also simulated the neural effects of sleep through low-frequency electrical stimulation of the visual cortex.

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"For ages I couldn't go to sleep, through the noise and the being too scared to fall asleep, but I so wanted to sleep through my sentence."

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