take to one's bed

present singular third person takes to one's bed · participle present taking to one's bed · past took to one's bed · participle past taken to one's bed

1. intransitiveTo become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.

   By-and-by he took to his bed.

   1883 December, Harper’s Magazine, page 135

   4 more examples

   And so the time came when she could move about no longer, and took to her bed.

   1873, Charles Dickens, The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter, Introduction

   Each day he grew more and more wretched, till at length he took to his bed and never got up.

   1901, Andrew Lang, “The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet”, in The Violet Fairy Book

   He liked sometimes to be ill enough to take to his bed.

   1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 16, in Women in Love

   He says he took to his bed for a year and couldn't write.

   2008 October 23, David Smith, “Eminem set for comeback”, in New Zealand Herald, retrieved 19 Sep 2011