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fart sack n. a sleeping bag; a bed. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.)Well, it's time I was getting into the old fart sack.Get out of that fart sack and get up and get going! rack n. a bed.I need some more time in the rack.You don't get to see the rack very much in the army. sack n. a bed.I was so tired I could hardly find my sack.Somebody put a spider in my sack.
bed 1. noun the playing surface of a pool table US, 1990.► get into bed within business or politics, to merge with, to become a partner of, to start a venture with UK, 1977.► put to bedto complete a piece of work. Office jargon that now infects every workplace; an extension of the figurative sense used by printers UK, 2005 2. verb to have sex with someone UK, 1548
idiombedsb got out of bed (on) the wrong side BrEBrEsb got up on the wrong side of the bed AmEused in order to say that someone seems to be angry or annoyed without any reason:Listen to him - sounds as if he got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.Those guys are so friendly - if you get up on the wrong side of the bed and you're in a bad mood, they just cheer you up.NoteThis expression probably started as 'get out of bed the wrong way', which comes from the old belief that if you put your left foot on the floor first in the morning, you would have bad luck all day. sb has made their bed (and they must lie on it)used in order to say that someone has chosen to be in a particular situation, and they must accept it, although it is not good:Outside the prison, the convicted man's father said, "He's made his bed, and now he's got to lie on it."He won't see Phyllis - he says she's made her bed, and turned her back on her own people.be in bed with sb(also get into bed with BrE)to join or start working with another business company or political group, in order to get a business or political advantage, used especially when you disapprove of this arrangement ◆ often used in newspapers, on television news etc:It's a union town - which means that the politicians are in bed with the unions.BT immediately got into bed with MCI, America's second-biggest long-distance phone company.Once again, the government has been caught in bed with the tobacco industry.sth is no bed of roses(also sth is not a bed of roses)used in order to say that a situation is sometimes difficult or unpleasant:Life is no bed of roses for the trainee teacher.They agree that their marriage has not been a bed of roses.put sth to bed1 to finish making a decision, agreement, or plan, or to succeed in dealing with a problem ◆ often used in business and politics:I'm hoping that we can put this matter to bed, because we have other, more important, things to discuss.US officials said that the problems regarding compensation had not been put to bed.2 to show that something is not true:The interview puts to bed the rumours about their failing marriage.Halford's analysis puts several half-baked economic theories to bed. phrasebed[bedded, bedded, bedding] bed down 1. bed down to lie down in order to got to sleep somewhere, especially on the floor, on the ground, on a chair etc: Angie didn't want to go home so late, so I told her she could bed down on the sofa. About twenty people had bedded down outside the shop, waiting for the sale to start.■ SIMILAR TO: doss down BrE informal2. bed down BrE if a new system beds down, it gradually becomes less new and strange and starts to work with fewer problems: It will be necessary to wait about six months for the reforms to bed down, before we can comment on their success.3. bed sb/sth down • bed down sb/sth to make a person or animal ready for the night: It was Jim's job to look after the horses and bed them down for the night.4. bed sb down • bed down sb AmE informal to have sex with someone - used when someone is proud of having done this: He claimed to have bedded down over 20,000 women. bed out bed out sth • bed sth out BrE to move young plants from where they have been growing indoors, and plant them outside in the ground: Sow the seeds in March, and bed them out in the vegetable garden in May.■ SIMILAR TO: plant out BrE
See:- (one) has made (one's) bed
- (one) has made (one's) bed and (one) will have to lie in it
- (one) made (one's) (own) bed
- (one) made (one's) bed and (one) has to lie in it
- (one) made (one's) bed and (one) must lie in it
- a bed of nails
- a bed of roses
- a Procrustean bed
- as you make your bed, so you must lie on it
- be a bed of nails
- be in bed with
- be in bed with somebody/something
- be no bed of roses
- be not a bed of roses
- bed and board
- bed and breakfast
- bed blocker
- bed bunny
- bed down
- bed down (some place)
- bed down some place
- bed in
- bed of roses
- bed of roses, a
- bed-and-breakfast
- bed-bunny
- couldn't lie straight in bed
- die in (one's) bed
- die in your bed
- don't let the bedbugs bite
- early to bed and early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise)
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
- early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
- fall out of bed
- get into bed with
- get into bed with (someone or something)
- get into bed with someone
- get out of bed on the wrong side
- get out of bed the wrong side
- get up on the wrong side of (the) bed
- get up on the wrong side of bed
- go to bed
- go to bed with
- go to bed with (one)
- go to bed with somebody
- go to bed with the chickens
- go to bed with the sun
- good in bed
- got up on the wrong side of bed
- have made your bed and have to lie on it
- Hulda is making her bed
- I should have stayed in bed
- I should have stood in bed
- I shoulda stayed in bed
- I shoulda stood in bed
- in bed
- in bed with
- in bed with (one's) boots on
- laid up
- make (one's) bed (up)
- make a bed
- make bed
- make bed (up
- make demands of
- make one’s bed
- make one's bed and lie in it
- make the bed
- make the bed (up)
- make up (one's) bed
- make up the bed
- musical beds
- not be a bed of roses
- Procrustean bed
- put (one) to bed with a shovel
- put (someone or something) to bed
- put someone to bed with a shovel
- put something to bed
- put to bed
- put to bed with a shovel
- reds under the bed
- should have stood in bed
- should have stood in bed, I
- sick in bed
- take to bed
- take to your bed
- test bed
- the wrong side of the bed
- tumble into bed
- unmade bed
- wake up on the wrong side of (the) bed
- wet the bed
- wet the/your bed
- you have made your bed and must lie in it
- you've made your bed, now lie in it
- you've made your bed, now lie on it
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