In the Morning (Everday Idioms 1)

1. wake up
also: get up

to awake, to arise from sleep.
Grammar/Usage Notes: These idioms can be used with or without an object. With an object, the idioms are separable."Get up" literally means " to get out of the bed" which may happen some time after waking up.

Example: Ginger usually gets up before her parents, but this morning they had to wake her up.
Sometimes after I wake up, I lie in bed for a while before I finally get up.

2. crack of dawn

the moment when sunlight is first seen in the morning sky.

Example: During the busy harvest season , farmers get up at the crack of dawn and don't stop working until dusk.

3. go off

to sound, to ring.
Usage Note: The subject is usually alarm or buzzer.
Examples: When the alarm goes off in the morning , I jump out of bed immediately.
Jack was late to work because he didn't hear the buzzer go off

4. not sleep a wink

to get no sleep (or very little sleep) during the night.
Usage Note: the negative term hardly can substitute for not.
Examples: The Wilsons couldn't sleep a wink the first night they spent in their new house.
The children were so exited about opening presents on Christmas Day that they hardly slept a wink on Christmas Eve.

5. sleep like a log
also: sleep like a baby.

to sleep very well.
Examples: I didn't wake up once last night. I must have slept like a log.
Maria can sleep like a baby in almost any place, including airplanes and cars.

6. take a shower

to shower.
related idiom: take a bath (to bathe)
Example: After easy exercise I take a shower, but after serious exercise I take a bath to relax my muscles.

7. get ready

to prepare oneself by getting dressed , eating breakfast, and so on.
Examples: It takes Linda about an hour to get ready for work if she hurries.
The firsth thing I do to get ready in the morning is to shave.

8. get someone going

to stimulate into action.
Grammar/Usage Notes: This idiom is used when someone is slow to act in the morning. A reflexive pronoun can also be used.
Examples:There's nothing like a good cup of coffee to get me going in the morning.
Charlie likes to jog every morning to get himself going.

9. start the day off (right)

to begin the day with something good.
Examples:I usually start the day off by having some tea and reading the newspaper.
Some people like to exercise to start the day off right.

10. sleep in

to stay in bed late in the morning.
Examples: On the weekends, many people like to sleep in.
Josh chose to sleep in after staying up late the night before.