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Vsuresh Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

win over

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Can we say I couldn't talk to you clearly last night as sleep had won over me then?
  

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"sleep had won me over" is a poetic phrase that would normally be too overblown for conversational English. "

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"sleep had won me over" is a poetic phrase that would normally be too overblown for conversational English. Normally one would say it another way, such as "I couldn't talk to you clearly last night because I was too tired."
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