jet lag
"I'm tired," said Yeboah, still jet-lagged from the 22-hour journey from his homeland.
He was back on the set of Country Club the following day, tired and jet-lagged, and in a thoroughly bad temper.
The hotel is ideal for jet-lagged businesspeople and exhausted sightseers who want plenty of soft furnishings to kick back on at the end of the day.
When I'm jet-lagged, I'm literally speaking gibberish!

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tired and making tired
all in
anti-fatigue
at your worstidiom
be dead on your feetidiom
be fit/ready to dropidiom
finish something off
fit to dropidiom
fragile
frazzled
gassed
haggard
knackered
shell-shocked
sleep-deprived
sleepily
sleepiness
sleepy
stonkered
strung out
zonked

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Travelling
Air travel: travelling by aircraft

jet-lagged | Business English

jet-lagged
adjective
(alsojetlagged)ukus
TRANSPORT
feeling tired because of the effects of taking a long plane journey through different time zones:
They checked into their hotel, feeling weary and jet-lagged.

Examples of jet-lagged

jet-lagged
All of her fellow agents sat groggily around a large conference table while a jet-lagged but grinning middle-aged woman gestured wildly.
From Wired
While midday workouts haven't yet been proven to be better than morning workouts for jet-lagged humans, it's not a bad idea to cancel lunch and head to the gym instead.
From Huffington Post
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