Idiom
sleep funny
Meaning
To sleep in a position resulting in muscle or joint pain upon waking.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“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.”
Examples
simple
“My neck hurts because I slept funny last night.”
contextual
“I cannot turn my head to the left today because I must have slept funny on my pillow.”
complex
“Waking with a sharp, radiating pain in his shoulder, he realized he had slept funny, a common consequence of his restless and unsupportive mattress.”
Origin
From sleep (verb) + funny (adverb).
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