What is the origin of 'sleep tight'?
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Of or belonging to this world; characteristic of the world, worldly.
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Cursor Mundi: a Northumbrian poem of the 14th century. From world + -ish. Compare Old Frisian wraldisk; Middle Dutch wereltsch (Dutch werelds), Old High German weraltisc.