Sleep (slept) like a log.
"I slept like a log" was the reply from an American heard in Shakespeare Country yesterday; when asked if he'd slept well the night before.The expression is in common use in the UK as well but does...
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It's probably just because it's an inanimate object. Any object would do and "log" just happened to be chosen. It may have been influenced by "falling off a log" and similar phrases.
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Logs have been a proverbial metaphor for inertia since classical times - after all, they dont do anything but lie around and grow moss - as in Aesops fable of King Log and King Stork.There is a...
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And logs are more or less similar in size and shape to humans lying down, so it's a natural comparison.
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In Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, after describing Frodo's disturbing dreams, says something along the lines of "As for Sam, he spent the night contentedly, if logs are content."
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