A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

Note: 
The expression does not correlate in meaning with the
go places
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phrase take to bed—remain in bed through sickness or other
cause: I came down with a cold and took to bed for a couple
of days.
go to sleep —
1
. = go to bed 
1
: Suppose you go to sleep, that
you may get up in time enough. 2. fall asleep: I did not go to
bed and I did not go to sleep. It was well past midnight, but
I managed to get the number of the ambassador’s residence
in Bern. 3. (of a part of the body) become numb so that a person
doesn’t feel it: Wegner pinches his arm to see whether he feels
it…. He feels just a little but not much, like a part that is
gone to sleep. 4. (euph.) die; pass away: …Thaddeus, the old
man of West Cambridge, who outwatched the rest so long
after they had gone to sleep in their own churchyards.
go to bed in one’s boots • go to bed with one’s
boots on
go to bed in one’s boots —(dated sl.) be very drunk: If old
Jones drinks much more, he’ll go to bed in his boots.
go to bed with one’s boots on —(sl., of men) use a contracep-
tive: You can’t make them wear something. I tried to tell Reg-
gie once…. “No fear,” he said, “I don’t go to bed with my
boots on!”
go to ground • go to the ground
go to ground —
1
. fall down: Larsson claimed a penalty when
he went to ground after a tussle with Amoruso. 2. (also: go to
earth) go into hiding; put oneself out of sight: Some key gang
leaders had been arrested and the assumption was that the
others had “gone to ground.”
go to the ground —
1
. = go to ground 
1
: Several of us were hit
including me who went to the ground in a pool of blood. 2.
be overcome; perish: Each vagabond that arrived bent his neck
to the yoke of gain…. The strong survived, the weaker went
to the ground.