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British Slang: Bo-Peep

Bo-Peep means sleep or nap. It originates from the popular English children's folk song 'Little Bo Peep' / 'Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep': Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where

Bo-Peep

Sleep, nap.

It originates from the popular English children's folk song 'Little Bo Peep' / 'Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep':

sleepLittle Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, And they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.

Little Bo Peep

More detailed version:

Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them.

It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack each again to its lambkin.

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