| 释义 |
in the Land of NodAsleep. The phrase likely alludes to how one's head nods when one is falling asleep. I would have told you this last night, but you were already in the Land of Nod, and I didn't want to wake you. in the ˌland of ˈNod (old-fashioned, humorous) asleep: Pete and Joe were still in the land of Nod, so I went out for a walk in the morning sunshine.This expression developed from the similarity between the verb ‘nod off’, meaning to fall asleep, and a place in the Bible called ‘the land of Nod’. |