"sleep tight"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

There is an entry worth consulting for "Good night, sleep tight, don’t
let the bedbugs bite" at Barry Popik's repository:

Short link: http://bit.ly/Ul3xIA

Long link: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/good_night_sleep_tight_dont_let_the_bedbugs_bite/

There is an entry worth consulting for '"sleep tight" at Michael
Quinion's World Wide Words:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sle1.htm

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> James Edward Grant (via John Wayne) _The Alamo_ (1960): "I'm gonna tell you
> something, Flaca, and I want you to listen tight."
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> Here it = 'real, real closely'
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> I don't believe I've ever encountered "listen tight" elsewhere.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Fast  "asleep."
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>> Precisely my point! Joh, you understand! :-)
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>> Just heard Colbert say,
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>> "The name of this movie is _called_ ['Whatever']."
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>> So, he really *is* a son of the South!:-)
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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