bed down
phr. v..phr. v.. to settle into a place to sleep or stay for the night; it can also mean helping something new become stable and familiar.
phr. v.. to settle into a temporary place of rest; figuratively, to establish a new process, system, or arrangement so that it functions smoothly.
We decided to bed down in the barn for the night.
The hikers found a flat spot near the river to bed down before the storm arrived.
The management team allowed several months for the new structural changes to bed down before assessing the long-term impact on productivity.
often used literally for sleeping in rough or temporary conditions, or figuratively for new policies or software.
highlight the dual nature of the phrase: the literal 'sleeping' sense is more common in fiction, while the 'settling in' sense is frequent in British business English.
They bedded down to the hotel.They bedded down at the hotel.the phrase is often intransitive or followed by a preposition of location like 'at', 'in', or 'for the night', rather than 'to'.