sack out
Go to sleep, go to bed, as in We sacked out about midnight. This slangy idiom is a verbal use of the noun sack, slang for “bed” since about 1940; it alludes to a sleeping bag and appears in such similar phrases as in the sack, in bed, and sack time, bedtime.
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How to use sack out in a sentence
Not to be a scold, but is it really such a good idea to sack out in front of the TV all Thanksgiving afternoon?
And then, you see, the Coroner said, 'Why on earth did he take the sack out in the boat at all?'
The House by the River | A. P. HerbertHe went into the smoking-room, then into the dining-room, dropped the gold plate into a sack and threw the sack out of a window.
The Chase of the Golden Plate | Jacques FutrelleHe spilled the contents of the sack out on the sand, and bent over it.
The U.P. Trail | Zane GreyCarefully, he emptied the contents of the sack out on the floor.
Piper in the Woods | Philip K. Dick
Then we sack out our own, and they can bring theirs along or not, as they like.
The Boss of Wind River | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
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