What is the origin of 'sleep tight'?
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of Beau Brummell, English dandy and arbiter of British fashion for the first decade and a half of the 19th cent.
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Edinburgh Literary Journal. From the name of George Bryan Brummell, English dandy known as ‘Beau Brummell’ + -ian.