What's the difference between "to lie in" and "to sleep in"?

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kasamb

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Hi there,

What's the difference between "to lie in" and "to sleep in"?

And could you correct the following sentence please:

"I wanted to turn off my mobile telefone not to be called next morning, but I forgot to do that and my friend called me so early, that my plan to sleep/lie in failed"

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They mean the same thing.
 

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If I 'sleep in', I do not wake up at my normal time. If I 'lie in', I may wake up at around my usual time, but may stay in bed, reading or contemplating my navel.
 

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ok, thanks a lot! Then my question would be, is the sentence "I wanted to turn off my mobile telefone not to be called next morning, but I forgot to do that and my friend called me so early, that my plan to sleep in failed" grammatically correct?
 

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I wanted to turn off my mobile (telephone) so that I could not [STRIKE]to[/STRIKE] be called next morning, but I forgot to do that and my friend called me so early, so that my plan to sleep in failed.
 

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If I 'sleep in', I do not wake up at my normal time. If I 'lie in', I may wake up at around my usual time, but may stay in bed, reading or contemplating my navel.

I partially agree. Sometimes, when I have a lie-in, I sleep really late and then get up. Sometimes, when I sleep in, I wake up at the normal time, then go back to sleep, then wake up again, read for a while, muck around on my phone for a bit, drop back to sleep for a while and then eventually drag myself out of bed

But I agree that "to sleep in" suggests sleeping late but with "to lie in" or "to have a lie-in", I might be awake or I might be asleep.
 
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I partially agree.
I only partially agree with myself. Post #3 was intended as a personal response, not a definitive one.
 

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my friend called me so early, so that my plan to

I would use:

my friend called me so early that my plan to
 

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If I 'sleep in', I do not wake up at my normal time. If I 'lie in', I may wake up at around my usual time, but may stay in bed, reading or contemplating my navel.

Or something.
 
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