SLEEPING BEAUTY


Meaning of SLEEPING BEAUTY in English

noun

used to refer to sb who has been asleep for a long time :

OK, Sleeping Beauty, time to get up.

ORIGIN: From the European fairy tale about a beautiful girl who sleeps for a hundred years and is woken up when a prince kisses her.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.