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- adjective idiomatic
Sound asleep , usually from a healthyexhaustion . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sack out .
Etymologies
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Outgrowth of the earlier idiom, to hit the sack ("to lie down to sleep"), with possible influences from other senses of to sack ("to tackle, to pillage"), and to sock ("to hit, to slam"), providing an implication that sleep has been thrust upon a person.
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