# sleep funny

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/sleep-funny
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

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

## 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.

## Origin

From sleep (verb) + funny (adverb).

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