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Jimmy Hung
2022-02-13 02:02
Sing (one) to sleep spoken language verb phrase
Used to indicate singing to help someone fall asleep.
I remember when I was a kid. My mother usually sang me to sleep.
Be quite. I'm singing her to sleep.
The baby cries and makes her mother sing him to sleep.
Her voice was so boring that I felt like it was singing me sleep.
It's mostly used in the present tense.
Do you see anything wrong?
The idiom is used to say that someone is stupid, unthinking, or inattentive.
When I tell them anything, they look at me like the lights are on, but nobody's home.
