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hit the sack

phraseC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To hit the sack is to go to bed. Time to hit the sack, hit the sack early, I am going to hit the sack.

It is informal and cheerfully abrupt, and hit the hay means exactly the same thing. To hit the sack is a phrase from a time when a bed really was a sack stuffed with straw.

Definitions of hit the sack

  1. 1phrasehit the sackTo go to bed.C1

    “I'm exhausted, so I'm going to hit the sack early tonight.”

hit the sack is a going to bed.

Also accepted in games: hit the hay

Where it comes from

From beds that were sacks stuffed with straw or hay.

A reference to the manner in which farmers tend to sleep on sacks of hay.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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