take to your bed

Meaning

1. to go to bed and stay there because you are ill / sick

In the movies · 3

• Well, Florence Nightingale took to her bed at the age of 38.Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• ...the ill treatment of the insolent Irish upstart whom you've taken to your bed.Barry Lyndon1975
• You did what? I built a man. And succeeded in animating him.National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011
• Then he said, "Take up your bed and walk."Shutter Island2010
• What if she leaves you? What if she finds someone else? How will you feel if you're rejected by one of your own species, the only one of your own species, the only one you can take to your bed, how will you react? I will run mad if she leaves me!National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011

Learn it in full scenes

• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton

From the same entry

• a bed of roses
• get out of bed on the wrong side
• go to bed with
• in bed
• you've made your bed and you must lie in it
• die in your bed
• wet the bed
• bed down