Horizontal engineering American British humorous
This phrase often goes with the verb "do".
To indicate the act of taking a short sleep.
It's break time so I have to do some horizontal engineering to make up for sleep time last night.
I'm too drained now since I had to stay up all night to handle the immense workload. I think I should do horizontal engineering.
Doing horizontal engineering after lunch reaps many benefits for the brain and body.
To take a seat and relax
To get some sleep
To sleep.
1. To take a break to breathe normally after an excess physical activity
2. To stop breathing for a very short time because of a surprising or fearful event
A term used (usually in the military) to indicate sleep.
Although you got the second prize, you was still defeated by the first one and fail to win, come first or become the champion in the end.
She congratulated me for getting the second prize, but I think second place is the first loser.