/ˈiɾse al ˈsoβɾe/ lit. ‘to go off to the envelope’
Spanish idiom, colloquial. To go to bed.
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How do people use Irse al sobre
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Casual slang, mostly from Spain, for heading to bed at the end of a night. It’s what you say to friends or family, not in a meeting. People often drop the verb and just say “y al sobre” (“and off to bed”).
Also said meterse en el sobre, me voy al sobre, ¡al sobre!
Irse al sobre
in real sentences
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Nos tomamos la penúltima y al sobre, ¿de acuerdo?
One last drink and then off to bed, okay?
Tatoeba, sentence by Seael, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Irse al sobre
come from?
Spanish Wiktionary lists “cama” (bed) as a colloquial sense of “sobre”, with an example of “me voy al sobre” from 2013, and English Wiktionary lists the bed sense for Peru. The usual picture is slipping between the sheets the way a letter slides into an envelope, but no source explains or dates it, so treat that as a guess.
Mistakes learners make with Irse al sobre
Taking “sobre” as the preposition “on”. In this phrase it’s the noun “envelope”, slang for bed, which is why it needs the article: “al sobre”, never “a sobre”.
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