hit the sack

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(idea) by muted (3.4 wk) (print)   (I like it!) Mon May 07 2001 at 19:54:08
To hit the sack is to go to bed.

This particular American idiom would seem to originate from the hay-filled sacks that farm workers (and some soldiers) slept on, a century or so ago. Later, beds and cots came into more widespread usage, but this phrase is still heard.

Also see: hit the hay.

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