Pardon me, if I take forty winks?

I think I'll catch a few winks.

She winks at you. You follow her.

That was a nice 40 winks I had.

While you can, go upstairs and catch forty winks.

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks.

There's no hurry. It'll give Papa a few extra winks of sleep.

Oh, it's a grand evening to be taking a few winks on deck.

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

I mean, you know it's you because you wink and it winks, and you know it's a mirror, but you don't really recognize yourself as yourself.

The second reason is more fundamental the waning sense of purpose and conviction that characterizes Western democracies today. Whereas, say, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan clearly confronted the Soviet Union in their speeches at the Berlin Wall, a succession of Western leaders has spoken in nods and winks about the crisis in Ukraine and China s aggressive stance toward its neighbors.

Recall that Turkey made its first application to join in 1959, and that since 1963, the European Economic Community, the forerunner to today s EU, responded with a delaying tactic a request for a customs agreement. At the same time, having never had to take no for an answer and after receiving a series of nods and winks that hinted that membership might one day come Turkey s expectation of eventual EU integration became increasingly palpable.