Phrase · 🧩 Idioms in everyday speech
Con el ruido de la obra, anoche no pegué ojo.
With the noise from the building work, I didn't sleep a wink last night.
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Why every word is where it is
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- no → ojo: no pegar ojo: not sleep a wink
- pegué → ojo: pegar ojo: only in the negative
- Con → ruido: con + noun: the cause
Word for word: “With the noise of the works, last night I didn't stick an eye.”
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1no pegar ojo = not to sleep a wink (lit. not stick an eye shut). Only negative; Latin America also no pegar el ojo.
- 2pegué: g → gu before -é keeps the hard g sound (llegué, pagué). Preterite I: regular verbs, ser/ir, dar, ver →
- 3con + noun can give the cause: con el ruido = what with the noise.
Variations
- Con el ruido de la obra, anoche no pude pegar el ojo.
- Con el ruido de la obra, anoche no dormí nada.
- Con el ruido de la obra, no he pegado ojo en toda la noche.