Hit the hay and hit the sack are two idioms that mean to go to bed. The assumption is that hit the hay and hit the sack come from the fact that mattresses used to consist of cloth sacks stuffed with hay. Before 1880 hit the hay meant to sleep in a barn, presumably where the farm's hay was stored.
: to loot after capture : plunder The invading army sacked the city.
To sack a city is a concept imported from the latin languages [esp. French, mettre à sac] in the mid-16th Century to mean, essentially, putting a town or community 'in the sack', in the sense of taking its goods.
Verb. ravage, devastate, waste, sack, pillage, despoil mean to lay waste by plundering or destroying. ravage implies violent often cumulative depredation and destruction.
Yes it is, sacked is still more common than the American English fired. It's the traditional British English word, sacked goes back at least 170 years. Speaking of which, as we drove past a graveyard the evening sun picked out the word SACKED on an old gravestone.
(Entry 1 of 3) 1 archaic : a low shoe or slipper. 2 also plural sox ˈsäks : a knitted or woven covering for the foot usually worn under shoes and extending above the ankle and sometimes to the knee. 3a : a shoe worn by actors in Greek and Roman comedy.
1 : hut, shanty. 2 : a room or similar enclosed structure for a particular person or use a guard shack.
Frequency: To sack is a slang term that is defined as to fire someone from their job. An example of sack is when a clerk is dismissed from their job because they took money from the register.
sack verb [T] (JOB)B2 mainly UK. ( US usually fire) to remove someone from a job, usually because they have done something wrong or badly, or sometimes as a way of saving the cost of employing them: They sacked her for being late. He got sacked from his last job.
transitive verb. 1. ( informal) (= dismiss) renvoyer ? mettre à la porte. He was sacked.
transitive verb. 1a : to take the goods of by force (as in war) : pillage, sack invaders plundered the town. b : to take by force or wrongfully : steal, loot plundered artifacts from the tomb. 2 : to make extensive use of as if by plundering : use or use up wrongfully plunder the land.
What is another word for sacked?
| fired | dismissed |
|---|
| discharged | removed |
| cashiered | axed |
| released | expelled |
| terminated | canned |
sack noun (BED)If someone is good/bad in the sack, they are sexually skilled/not sexually skilled.
sack out SlangTo sleep. [Middle English, from Old English sacc, from Latin saccus, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin; see śqq in the Appendix of Semitic roots.] Word History: The ordinary word sack carries within it a few thousand years of commercial history.
Sack sentence example
- She jerked on the sack again.
- Brandon handed a small sack to Rachel.
- It was high time, after the sack of Rome in 1527, that Charles V.
- It hit her like a sack of corn.
- There was an empty sack which had contained the climbing rope but it was empty and Dean put it aside.
sack verb [T] (JOB)to remove someone from a job, usually because they have done something wrong or badly, or sometimes as a way of saving the cost of employing them: They sacked her for being late. He got sacked from his last job. Her manager was sacked last month.
The most normal term if sacked is when the invading army burns the city , kills most of if not all the people in the city and then takes what's left people as slaves and in valuables ! Then there is sacking a city by killing all the soldiers taking all the people as slaves and looting the rest!
SACKING AND SACK MANUFACTURE. Sacking is a heavy closely-woven fabric, originally made of flax, but now almost exclusively made of jute or of hemp.
sack1 /sæk/ n. a large bag of strong, rough, woven material, as for potatoes:[countable]a burlap sack. the amount a sack holds:[countable]two sacks of sugar. a bag:[countable]a sack of candy.
sac/ sack. Both are containers, but a sac is for plants and animals, and a sack is for a sandwich. So spiders put their eggs in a sac, and people put their groceries in a sack. A sac is usually biological — attached to a living thing.
Sack is an antiquated wine term referring to white fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands.
Selective acknowledgment (SACK) is a technique used by TCP to help alleviate congestion that can arise due to the retransmission of dropped packets. It allows the endpoints to describe which pieces of the data they have received, so that only the missing pieces need to be retransmitted.
Answer: What Alaric really wanted was land on which his people could settle and an accepted place within the empire, which the authorities in Ravenna would not give him. Needing to keep his followers well rewarded, he marched on Rome and besieged it until the Roman senate paid him to go away.
