bed

bed and breakfast

1 overnight accommodation and breakfast next morning as offered by hotels etc.

2 designating financial transactions in which shares are sold and then bought back the next morning.

a bed of nails a problematic or uncomfortable situation.

☞ A bed of nails was originally a board with nails pointing out of it, lain on by Eastern fakirs and ascetics.

a bed of roses a situation or activity that is comfortable or easy.

die in your bed: seedie.

fall out of bed suffer financial or commercial collapse. North American informal euphemistic

get out of bed on the wrong side be bad-tempered all day long.

in bed with

1 having sexual intercourse with.

2 in undesirably close association with. informal

❷2000Snowboard UK Jackson lies like an oasis of culture and good coffee in a state that is otherwise firmly in bed with gun culture.

put something to bed

1 complete the editing of a newspaper, magazine, etc. and send it for printing.

2 deal with something conclusively. informal

❷2013Daily Telegraph It is earnestly to be hoped that it will be us-the Scottish people-who will decide next Sept 18 that they wish their country to remain a part of Britain. In so doing, they will thus put to bed for ever the divisive and distracting issue of Scotland's constitutional future.

reds under the bed: seered.

you have made your bed and must lie in it you must accept the consequences of your own actions.