Re: Common World Idioms

Roger Mills wrote:

> A friend of mine was quite taken aback when a South American colleague
> excused being late for work by explaining,  "I was stuck to the
sheets"....
> Turned out, "pegado a las sábanas" simply means "I just didn't want to get
> out of bed."
Of course, you can also be caught in a "blanket jam" (compare "trafic jam"):
un trancón de cobijas.

-- Carlos Th