Estar frito
To be asleep or extremely tired
Ayer llegué y me quedé frito en el sofá con la chaqueta puesta.
You get back from a very long bus trip, sit down 'just for a second' on the sofa and wake up three hours later with the TV still on.
In the literal sense it means 'to be cooked/fried', but on the street it's widely used to say you're completely exhausted and knocked out ('me quedo frito' = I fall asleep instantly). In Spain it's very common, and usually appears with 'quedarse' or 'caer': 'me quedé frito en el sofá' (I crashed on the sofa); it can also mean 'to be in trouble' ('como llegues tarde, estás frito'), depending on context. It has that funny quality of imagining yourself so tired that you've been dropped into a frying pan.
"Estar frito" does not mean to be in serious trouble, to be completely confused, to be very embarrassed. It specifically means "To be asleep or extremely tired".
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