Horizontal engineering American British humorous
This phrase often goes with the verb "do".
To indicate the act of taking a short sleep.
It's break time so I have to do some horizontal engineering to make up for sleep time last night.
I'm too drained now since I had to stay up all night to handle the immense workload. I think I should do horizontal engineering.
Doing horizontal engineering after lunch reaps many benefits for the brain and body.
To take a seat and relax
To get some sleep
To sleep.
1. To take a break to breathe normally after an excess physical activity
2. To stop breathing for a very short time because of a surprising or fearful event
A term used (usually in the military) to indicate sleep.