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

Holding the sack out to me, she said, “Here, Jay Berry, take this to your mother.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

She set the cat down and lifted the guitar case and sack out the window and onto the front porch.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Related Words

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