英语词汇hit the hay的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hit the hay
词源	hit the hay. To go to sleep, as in “We all hit the hay early after that first day of climbing.” Obviously, all the hay around sug- gests a rural origin and the phrase is first recorded in 1880s America. It may even derive from hit the sack, the sack in the phrase meaning a sack containing bedding like straw since the 17th century.
随便看	put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube put through the mill put to the pale put up on a pedestal put up your dukes put your foot in it put your shoulder to the wheel pygmalion pyjamas pyow pyrrhic victory pyrrhonist

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