http://www.weirdwords.com your source for weird words or phrase origins Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:38:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/sleep-tight/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sleep-tight http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/sleep-tight/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:34:14 +0000 dave http://www.weirdwords.com/?p=207 During Colonial times, the beds did not have box springs. Instead, all the feathers and other bed material were suspended by a series of criss-cross ropes tied to the bed frame.
Before the children would go to sleep, the mothers would remind them to ‘sleep tight’, or to tighten the ropes attached to the bed frame, so that the next morning, the ropes would not loosen so much that they would fall through the bed.

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