hit the sack
Go to bed
Hit the sack means to go to bed.
The phrase is casual and often implies tiredness: I'm exhausted—I'm going to hit the sack.
Hit the hay means the same thing, both expressions evoking the stuffed mattresses of earlier eras.
- turn inSubmit or sleep
- bedFurniture for slumber
- snoozeLight brief sleep
- catch some ZsGet some rest
- slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
doze · go to sleep · retire · zonk out · bed down · shut-eye · crash · dead to the world · sleep · lights out · bedtime · kip · drift off · goodnight · call it a night · early night · saw logs · nap
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
- falling asleepfell asleep, dozes, dozed off, nods off, nodded off
- idiomstime flies, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg, barking up the wrong tree
- folk sayingsproverb, adage, maxim, folk saying, old saying
sleep-wake state transition
hit the sackwake up
Become conscious again
get up · rise and shine · arise · awaken · rouse
activity level
hit the sackget going
Commence motion or activity
start the day · spring into action · hit the ground running · get moving · seize the day
hit, sack, hitting, hits, sacking, sacked, sacks, hitman, sackful