What are the rules of placing modifier between two characters?

I am having a real hard time with this. For example 睡觉 is “sleep.” And then you have 睡懒觉 which is like “sleep until late” but really that looks to me like “SLE-until late-EP” and its just super weird and I do not understand when to and not to use this format. Appreciate your help. Thanks.

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