Not in DARE?

[James Smith]

I've never associated the "sleep" in "wipe the sleep
from your eyes" with sleep boogers or any physical
substance; I have always considered it a figure of
speech simply meaning "Wake up."
--- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> "Sleep" may well be a reification of the old phrase,
> "Rub the sleep from your eyes" = "to rub your eyes
> upon awakening."  It's what both my grandparents (b.
> NYC 1880s) called the stuff.  My wife's parents
> (N.Y. State) used "sleepers" from at least the
> 1930's.
>
> JL


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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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