Name: English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (118) Beauty Sleep
Uploaded: 2019-09-15T15:05:22.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is Noun Phrase 118. The noun phrase  today is beauty

The imperative

sleep. Okay. Let's take a look at the note.  Beauty sleep is usually used in a

Adverbs of frequency

humorous way. So what we usually are  trying to make a joke when we use it , to refer

to sleep that is necessary to help one look refreshed and attractive. Some say

beauty sleep also implies going to bed before midnight. Yeah. Because if you

start going to three four o'clock in the morning you may not look so fresh in the

morning.  It tends to be used mostly with women or

in regard to women. Yeah. Men don't usually say I need my beauty sleep

unless they're really joking. But they might use it with women you know,  or

about women. It also alludes to the idea that if you lose too much sleep you may

look worn out and possibly get you know,  black circles around one's eyes. And then

of course you would not look very refreshed that way.

Some say the first citing may be from a Shakespeare poem called "Lucrece"  or

Lucrece something like that. Here is the quote. " Here in her sleepe

themselves so beautiful. " And then it pretty much kind of turned into what we use

today of beauty sleep. Okay. And by the 1800s it was a very common phrase. So

there's a lot of stories that are written in the 1800s that you know,  you

could find a citing of this phrase previously. Okay. Good and we just have

two examples here. If I don't get enough beauty sleep,  I will look terrible in the

morning. So maybe,  maybe a woman might be saying that. Or number two. You had better

go to bed now if you want to look good in the morning or you know if you want

to look good for your interview tomorrow or something like that. You need your

beauty sleep. Okay. And again we usually use it in a joking way. Okay.  I hope you

got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye=bye.