| 词组 | hit the hay |
| 释义 | Idiom hit the hay and hit the sack Theme: SLEEP to go to bed and get some sleep. (Slang.)Look at the clock. It’s time to hit the hay.I like to hit the sack before midnight. Slang hit the hay and hit the sack Theme: SLEEP tr. to go to bed.I have to go home and hit the hay pretty soon.Let's hit the sack. We have to get an early start in the morning. Idiom hit the hay to get into bed.It was time to hit the hay and drift off to sleep. hit the hay verb to smoke marijuana US, 1942hit the hayTo get into bed and go to sleep. I have to get up early for work tomorrow, so I think I'd better hit the hay. hit the hayand hit the sackFig. to go to bed. I have to go home and hit the hay pretty soon. Let's hit the sack. We have to get an early start in the morning. hit the hayAlso, hit the sack. Go to bed, as in I usually hit the hay after the eleven o'clock news, or I'm tired, let's hit the sack. The first colloquial expression dates from the early 1900s, the variant from about 1940. hit the haygo to bed. informalhit the ˈsack/ˈhay(informal) go to bed: I think it’s time to hit the sack. Sack and hay both refer to simple beds. In the past a bed was often just a sack or piece of rough cloth with hay inside. Sailors in the navy also slept in hammocks (= a type of bed hung between two posts, etc.) similar to sacks.hit the hayand hit the sack tv. to go to bed. Time to go home and hit the hay! Let’s hit the sack. We have to get an early start in the morning. hit the hay/sack, toGo to bed, go to sleep. The first expression dates from about 1900 and presumably alludes to a hayloft as a soft bed. A sports book of 1905 held it to be baseball players’ slang. The second term dates from World War II, although sack for “bed” originated in the U.S. Navy in the 1820s. |
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