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Also, 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.

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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.
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The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
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He shut his fist and hit Butterface a weak but well intended right-hander on the nose.
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One of the men seemed pretty bad, being hit in the head and in the body.
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