go to bed with

1. Engage in sex with; see go all the way , def. 2.

2. go to bed with the chickens . Retire very early, as in She made the children go to bed with the chickens . The chickens here alludes to the fact that domestic fowl generally go to sleep at sundown.

3. Also, . Form a close association with, as in There's always the danger that the inspectors will get in bed with the industries they're supposed to be inspecting . This usage simply extends the sexual relationship of def. 1 to broader use.

4. go to bed . Start printing a newspaper or other publication. The allusion here is that the morning newspaper is usually printed sometime during the night before. For example, It's too late for your story; the paper went to bed half an hour ago . [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

"Jessica was the one who used to go to bed with a football, she was dedicated from an early stage," her father Kevyn said.

From BBC

"I fancied him immediately and he was really notorious for asking girls 'do you want to go to bed with me?'," recalled Lynn Barber, a writer and friend from Oxford who recalled Marks being an "exotic looking person and an exotic character".

From BBC

“My phone is dinging from the time I wake up until I go to bed with different photos from different things that have happened at school, or a lesson plan, or this and that was said to a student by peers.”

From Los Angeles Times

López warmly describes Qavvik as “a perfectly female macho man”: “I do love that this bootlegger, dog runner, super, super male character that Navarro likes to go to bed with is so sentimental and understands her need to be free and be out there and can be okay with it,” she says.

From Salon

Go to bed with it because monsoons can come in the middle of the night, and we gotta roll.’

From Los Angeles Times