sack out

Idioms  

1. 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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sack out

"She is trans, rested and ready. She's got a great slogan, 'Take the sack out of Sacramento.'"

From Fox News ● Apr. 24, 2021

But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out."

From Time Magazine Archive

He practiced only a couple of hours a week, liked to sack out for a midday nap that lasted until 4, loved to strum his guitar at parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spreading the sack out on the counter, Grandpa took a pair of scissors and started cutting long strips, about two inches wide, from the soft material.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

He snatched the sack out of Emmett’s hand.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

Related Words

• bed down
• doze
• fall asleep
• languish
• relax
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