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every shut eye isn't asleep en · X
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(qualifier:especially African-American Vernacular) One must be careful, because some people who seem not to be paying attention are actually paying attention.
The other girls appeared to be sleeping through it as well, but there's an old saying that says every closed eye isn't sleeping.
2006, Sabrina Nixon, Victims of Change, →ISBN, page 150:“Hi, Daddy. I thought you were asleep.” “All closed eyes aren't sleep, baby,” he said, and peeped at his watch.
2007, Monica McKayhan, Indigo Summer, →ISBN, page 125: