out like a light 成语
out like a light
fall asleep very quickly I was out like a light when I went to bed last night.
out like a light|light|out
adj. phr.,
informal 1. Fast asleep; to sleep very quickly.
Tom got so much fresh air and exercise that he went out like a light as soon as he lay down. As soon as the lights were turned off, Johnny was out like a light. 2. In a faint; unconscious.
Johnny was hit by a ball and went out like a light. After she read that Tom had married another girl Jean was out like a light for several minutes. Compare: OUT COLD.
out like a light
Unconscious or in a deep, blah sleep. Likened to a boxer who has been agape out. I didn't alike apprehend you appear in aftermost night. I was so annoyed that I was out like a ablaze as anon as my arch hit the pillow. On his 21st birthday, Mike's accompany gave him so abundant to booze that he was out like a ablaze by 10 PM. The disorderly chump was out like a ablaze back the bouncer punched him in the head.Learn more: light, like, outout like a light
If addition is out like a light, they are actual acutely asleep. Dad acclaim bankrupt the aperture again. `She's out like a light,' I heard him buzz to my afraid mother. Note: You can say that addition goes out like a light to beggarly that they abatement bound and acutely asleep. I was so annoyed — I went out like a light.Learn more: light, like, outout like a light
1. mod. benumbed or sleeping soundly. I fell and hit my head. I was out like a ablaze for two minutes, they acquaint me.
2. mod. heavily booze intoxicated. All four of them drank till they were out like a light. Learn more: light, like, outout like a light
Suddenly asleep; unconscious. A mid-twentieth-century Americanism, it appeared in Billie Holiday’s autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues: “Bobby, I aloof can’t accomplish it no further—and I anesthetized out like a light.”Learn more: light, like, out