PERCHANCE TO DREAM….Where did the phrase “sleeping like a baby” come from? As all new parents will attest ad nauseum if you accidentally allow the subject to come up, newborns sleep exceptionally badly.
How about “sleeping like a cat” instead? They seem to have the whole sleeping thing down pretty well.
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