France· hard· informal
aller au schlof
“to go to schlof (a Germanic dialect word)”
Meaning
To go to bed for the night
Explanation
A cosy, everyday way of announcing it's bedtime, heard around the eastern regions bordering Germany.
Example
Allez les enfants, il est tard, on va au schlof !
Come on kids, it's late, off to bed!
Origin
'Schlof' comes from the German 'Schlaf', said with a Vosges accent. A glossary from Chalon already had it written down in 1860, which rules out the popular theory that it arrived with soldiers during the 1870 war.
Where
AlsaceLorraine
Source
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