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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Example Sentences

Then Williams was sacked out of field goal range and he laid in the grass for a few extra seconds, as if he knew what the loss meant.

From Los Angeles Times

On that potential game-tying drive, Moore took three sacks out of four plays.

From Los Angeles Times

He sells one kind of oyster, a Japanese variety called Crassostrea gigas, which he buys as small spuds from suppliers in France and grows in netted sacks out in the estuary.

From New York Times

Exhausted, we sacked out early that night at Zion Lodge, the rustic and unassuming structure built nearly a century ago.

From Washington Post

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

From Fox News

Related Words

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