Idioms: Hit the Sack / Sheets / Hay

Hit the Sack / Sheets / Hay

To go to bed.

Examples:

I'm going to hit the sack guys, catch you tomorrow.

Exhausted from his strenuous workout, John hit the sheets.

I have to go home and hit the hay pretty soon.

Meanings from the English-Bulgarian dictionary:

Hit [hit]

1. To strike, beat, deal a blow. To collide (against, on/upon).
2. To strike, hit, reach, achieve, attain the target.
3. To affect (also figuratively), offend.
4. To come upon / stumble upon, find, discover, happen, hit upon.
5. To guess, hit upon.
6. sl. To take (a path), arrive at.
7. auto. To reach, increase (speed).
8. colloq. To be published in (the press).
9. colloq. To attack fiercely (at).

Sack [sæk]

1. Bag, sack, pouch.
2. Dress / coat.
3. sl. Bed.

Sheet [ʃi:t] – Bedsheet

Hay [hei]

1. Hay.
2. Am. sl. Bed.

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