I have not slept at all.
The notion of getting not even a single moment’s sleep has been in the language since the 14th century. Robert Manning of Brunne, in his work Handlyng synne, 1303, records the phrase in Middle English:
“Ne mete ete, ne drank drynke, Ne slepte onely a-lepy wynke.”
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