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Hit the sack
If you hit the sack or alternatively hit the hay, it means you go to bed. Before the invention of the modern mattresses, they sued to be sacks filled with hay. They where basically a suck of hay you laid upon. In books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, such as Little House on the Prairie, they slept on “straw ticks.”
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