go to bed

go to bed

To get into one's bed and sleep, ideally for eight hours. (Although one can nap in one's bed, the phrase "go to bed" is generally reserved for a longer period of sleep at the end of the day.) OK, I'm going to bed—good night, guys. Well, I'm not surprised you slept past noon if you went to bed at four in the morning! Mary usually tries to go to bed by 10 PM.
See also: bed, go
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go to bed

(with someone) Go to go all the way (with someone).
See also: bed, go

go to bed

to go to where one's bed is, get into it, and go to sleep. It's time for me to go to bed. I want to go to bed, but there is too much work to do.
See also: bed, go
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • go to bed with
  • go to bed with (one)
  • go to bed with somebody
  • make (one's) bed (up)
  • make bed
  • make bed (up
  • make one’s bed
  • make up (one's) bed
  • make up the bed
  • climb into (something)
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For super smooth legs, make sure you've gone through your usual hair removal routine before you go to bed so you can be proud to strut around looking gorgeous in the morning.
Go to bed just 30 minutes earlier each school night, and you'll gain 2 1/2 hours of sleep a week.
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston last month found that the natural form of melatonin, a hormone produced by one's body after dark, may help people sleep at times when they normally do not go to bed.
"Even though there's that drug [melatonin] that is produced, you can still go to bed early and wake up and feel fine," he tells JS.
shares his wisdom with sleepless parents in Good Night, Sweet Dreams, I Love You: Now Get Into Bed and Go To Sleep!, a simple guide for anyone having problems getting their children to go to bed. Chapters cover specific issues with helping children from infants to toddlers, preschoolers, elementary schoolers, middle schoolers and beyond.
He threatened to scale the walls and said: 'If I could go to bed steamin', I'd get my head down.
"I'll wash two to three times a day, once in the morning, once in the middle of the day--to get rid of the sweat--and once before I go to bed," she says.
When the sky got dark, Brewster did not go to bed. He was still awake when the pigs stopped oinking, the cows stopped mooing, the geese stopped honking, and the horses had lain down in their stalls.
I like to go to bed early, so I constantly deal with this problem.
"If you're traveling west, go to bed one hour earlier for each time zone you will be experiencing," says Smith.
And it's scary to objectify white-trash street-hustler types to the degree to which you must in order to find them beautiful enough to go to bed with.
It you're going to California from Kansas, go to bed at 9 p.m.
These questions may concern your sleep habits (such as when you go to bed and when you get up), the medicine you take, the amount of caffeine and alcohol you drink, and if you smoke or chew tobacco.
"Face red, go to bed, and face white, sailors delight,"
Sonya Gowland: Mine are four and seven are go to bed at 7pm.