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sleep funny

idiom
Meaning

To sleep in a position resulting in muscle or joint pain upon waking.


Origin

disputed origin

From sleep (verb) + funny (adverb).

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.

Anchors to
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  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    big sleep

    Death.

  3. 03

    cry oneself to sleep

    To cry until or to fall asleep.

  4. 04

    does the Pope wear a funny hat

    Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.

  5. 05

    eat, breathe, and sleep

    To devote one's time obsessively to.

  6. 06

    eternal sleep

    Death

  7. 07

    fox sleep

    Feigned sleep while actually alert.

  8. 08

    funny bone

    The ulnar nerve in the elbow, which, when hit, causes a tingling sensation.

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