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hit the hay
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. |  hit the hay - prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in, bed, retirebed down, bunk down - go to bed; "We bedded down at midnight" |
Translationshit the hay
hit the hayTo get into bed and go to sleep. I have to get up early for work tomorrow, so I think I'd better hit the hay.See also: hay, hithit the hay and hit the sackFig. to go to bed. I have to go home and hit the hay pretty soon. Let's hit the sack. We have to get an early start in the morning.See also: hay, hithit the hayAlso, hit the sack. Go to bed, as in I usually hit the hay after the eleven o'clock news, or I'm tired, let's hit the sack. The first colloquial expression dates from the early 1900s, the variant from about 1940. See also: hay, hithit the hay go to bed. informalSee also: hay, hithit the ˈsack/ˈhay (informal) go to bed: I think it’s time to hit the sack. Sack and hay both refer to simple beds. In the past a bed was often just a sack or piece of rough cloth with hay inside. Sailors in the navy also slept in hammocks (= a type of bed hung between two posts, etc.) similar to sacks.See also: hay, hit, sackhit the hay and hit the sack tv. to go to bed. Time to go home and hit the hay! Let’s hit the sack. We have to get an early start in the morning. See also: hay, hithit the hay/sack, toGo to bed, go to sleep. The first expression dates from about 1900 and presumably alludes to a hayloft as a soft bed. A sports book of 1905 held it to be baseball players’ slang. The second term dates from World War II, although sack for “bed” originated in the U.S. Navy in the 1820s.See also: hay, hithit the hay
Related to hit the hay: hit the sack, Idioms, knows the ropesSynonyms for hit the hayverb prepare for sleepSynonyms- crawl in
- go to bed
- go to sleep
- hit the sack
- kip down
- sack out
- turn in
- bed
- retire
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