sleep camel | Idiomator

Meaning: (slang,idiomatic)A person who habitually does with little to nosleepduring theweekand thenmakes upby sleeping a lot during theweekend.2001, Charles B. Handy,The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press, published2002,→ISBN,page100:No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.2001, Richard Reeves,Happy Mondays: Putting the Pleasure Back Into Work‎[1], Pearson Education Limited,→ISBN:Silicon Valley has bred 'sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week.2014, Rocky F. Catman,Meet Me at the Riverside, Lulu,→ISBN,page198:Sheila told her that John said musicians were likesleep camelswhen it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to.For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:sleep camel.

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