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Sleeping baby

Why do we say it: slept like a baby?

It’s a quirky wee language, English. We steal and bastardise from pretty much every other language, and take words that contain exactly the same letters in exactly the same order and pronounce them differently (for example, polish and Polish). And then there are the weird phrases we adopt. Such as “I slept like a baby.”

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