hit the hay

Idioms  

1. 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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hit the hay

“I hit the hay all day. I was trying to hit the hay before you came in.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

This is a perfect gift for a late-night reader whose partner might hit the hay early.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

In this episode of How To!, we bring in Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and co-founder of the meditation app Headspace, to help Ben hit the hay.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2019

While she’s talking, I’m doing the math, trying to calculate how long it will take for her to bathe, brush her teeth, read a book and hit the hay.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2019

The bottle reached the edge and slipped from our view, made an almost inaudible swish as it hit the hay below.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth