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sleep on

vb. 1 (&lit sleep on English) 2 (context idiomatic English) To postpone a decision at least overnight.

Usage examples of "sleep on".

Odd to sleep on a bare floor, too -- not that it mattered with low gravity.

The torch was guttering and filling the cave with smoke, so Yaqui extinguished the light In the darkness there was a rustling of straw and sundry groans and yawns as the prisoners lay down to sleep on the pallets.