Planchar La Oreja

The colorful Spanish idiom planchar la oreja means “to sleep,” but translated literally, it means “to iron the ear,” alluding to flattening one’s ear on a pillow. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Planchar La Oreja”

Here’s a Spanish expression for sleeping: planchar oreja, which means to iron the ear.

If you’re sleeping on the pillow on your side, you’re ironing your ear. Oh, so true! That’s, as a side sleeper, that’s definitely what happens. You wake up and you feel like your ear is no longer got those curves in it. It’s no longer like a seashell; it’s more like a more like a receipt from the store.

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