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... more →
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.” It was basically a mattress full of hay or straw. She wrote that it was prickly, and uncomfortable if the hay was uneven.
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Cut the cheese
To release intestinal gas. Another version if this idiom is Cut the mustard. (Use with caution.) Who cut the cheese? People who cut the mustard in the car... more →
Part and parcel
A basic or essential part. Working overtime is part and parcel of my job.
You can’t please everyone
It is not possible to make everyone happy. Everything you do will be offensive, unpleasant or wrong to someone else because people are very different. You... more →
Able to breathe easily again
To be able to relax and get over a stressful period of time or event. Priscilla was able to breathe easily again when she learned she wouldn’t get... more →
Do blindfolded
To be able to do something in a fast and easy way. The class was easy to paint and we were able to do it blindfolded.
As pale as a ghost
To be extremely pale, as if frightened. She was as pale as a ghost after her husband’s death. Other forms of the expression are: as pale as death; as... more →
As one
Being in a group, but acting as just one person. The staff stood up as one and started to accuse the manager.
As luck would have it
By fortunate chance. The expression was originally used in the from of ‘as good luck would have it’. As luck would have it, I managed to find... more →