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 →
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.
Read More →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 →
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 →
A basic or essential part. Working overtime is part and parcel of my job.
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 →
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 →
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.
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 →
Being in a group, but acting as just one person. The staff stood up as one and started to accuse the manager.
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 →