Hello, there!

Today we have a very common idiom im Portuguese: não pregar o olho.

It means “not to sleep a wink” and it happens to everybody once in a while. Here are some examples:

A música estava tão alta na casa do vizinho que eu não consegui pregar o olho a noite toda.
The music was so loud at the neighbor’s that I couldn’t sleep a wink.

Tenho três provas esta semana e tenho que entregar um trabalho enorme até sexta-feira. Não tenho conseguido pregar o olho por causa disso.
I have three tests this week and I have to submit a huge paper by Friday. I haven’t been able to sleep a wink because of that.

One of the coolest ways to see how a word or expression is used in real-life Portuguese is to use twitter. For example, when I type “pregar o olho” here’s what I get:

Here’s what I got when I typed in “preguei o olho”:

Por hoje é só! Nos vemos em breve!

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