FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 days agoIt's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a placemessage-squaremessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down118
arrow-up1169arrow-down1message-squareIt's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a placeFreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 days agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squareneatchee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·10 days agoI’m 90% sure that it was originally in the form of “to go <there/place> and <verb>” and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing
I’m 90% sure that it was originally in the form of “to go <there/place> and <verb>” and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing