Question

what is the meaning of the simile ‘like a log'.​

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Answer

Sleep very soundly, as in I slept like a log, or She said she slept like a top. Both of these similes transfer the immobility of an object to that of a person who is sound asleep (since a top spinning quickly looks immobile). The first dates from the late 1600s; the variant is newer. See also: like, log, sleep.