sleep funny
To sleep in a position resulting in muscle or joint pain upon waking.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“My neck hurts because I slept funny last night.”
“I cannot turn my head to the left today because I must have slept funny on my pillow.”
“Waking with a sharp, radiating pain in his shoulder, he realized he had slept funny, a common consequence of his restless and unsupportive mattress.”
From sleep (verb) + funny (adverb).
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beauty sleep
Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
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big sleep
Death.
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cry oneself to sleep
To cry until or to fall asleep.
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does the Pope wear a funny hat
Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.
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eat, breathe, and sleep
To devote one's time obsessively to.
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eternal sleep
Death
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fox sleep
Feigned sleep while actually alert.
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funny bone
The ulnar nerve in the elbow, which, when hit, causes a tingling sensation.
Last updated August 10, 2026