hit the pillow
to go to bed
TRANSLATION
hit the pillow = schlafen gehen, sich aufs Ohr hauen (DH) --- GOOGLE INDEX hit the pillow: approximately 80,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Most people fall asleep within 20 minutes after their heads HIT THE PILLOW. If you are still staring at the ceiling after an hour, you have a problem.
(Electrical Apparatus magazine)
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So when I woke suddenly at 1am, only three hours after my head HIT THE PILLOW, I knew something was wrong.
(The Sunday Mirror)
(Electrical Apparatus magazine)
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So when I woke suddenly at 1am, only three hours after my head HIT THE PILLOW, I knew something was wrong.
(The Sunday Mirror)
Did you
know?
hit the pillow
idiom
- to lay down to go to sleep
(DH)
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WORD ORIGIN
Hit the pillow comes from the idea of laying your head down on the pillow before going to sleep. The hope is that sleep will come fast, which of course doesn't always happen.
Sleeplessness, or insomnia as it's called, affects anywhere from 30 to 50 percent of the general population. Some 10 percent suffer from chronic insomnia (insomnia comes from the Latin insomnia: in = not + somnus = sleep)
There is a wealth of advice about how to deal with insomnia, most of it simple: take a warm bath, listen to music, drink warm milk or herbal tea, get a massage (assuming someone is available!), rub your stomach (if no one is available), avoid caffeine and alcohol or try deep breathing or toe wiggling.
Other non-conventional methods include counting backwards (from 100 as an example), counting animals (sheep were once the standard animal for this exercise), making sure one faces north or checking to see if there is a water vein running under the house (something that requires an expert).
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SYNONYMS
(going to bed, sleeping)
hit the sack, hit the hay, get some shuteye, catch a few Z's, siesta, forty winks, hibernate, crash
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I worked at the trade fair booth for 10 hours straight. It was exhausting. I fell asleep the moment my head hit the pillow."
idiom
- to lay down to go to sleep
(DH)
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WORD ORIGIN
Hit the pillow comes from the idea of laying your head down on the pillow before going to sleep. The hope is that sleep will come fast, which of course doesn't always happen.
Sleeplessness, or insomnia as it's called, affects anywhere from 30 to 50 percent of the general population. Some 10 percent suffer from chronic insomnia (insomnia comes from the Latin insomnia: in = not + somnus = sleep)
There is a wealth of advice about how to deal with insomnia, most of it simple: take a warm bath, listen to music, drink warm milk or herbal tea, get a massage (assuming someone is available!), rub your stomach (if no one is available), avoid caffeine and alcohol or try deep breathing or toe wiggling.
Other non-conventional methods include counting backwards (from 100 as an example), counting animals (sheep were once the standard animal for this exercise), making sure one faces north or checking to see if there is a water vein running under the house (something that requires an expert).
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SYNONYMS
(going to bed, sleeping)
hit the sack, hit the hay, get some shuteye, catch a few Z's, siesta, forty winks, hibernate, crash
---
IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I worked at the trade fair booth for 10 hours straight. It was exhausting. I fell asleep the moment my head hit the pillow."
