Hit the books is another way to saying it is time to study.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Listen as we play "Vendome",another big hit.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Another expression involving hit is hit bottom.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

"I've always been a devotee of slapstick, and it sort of emphasizes sometimes jokes and you know I think everybody really deep inside would sometime or another would like to throw a pie or get hit with a pie."

VOA: special.2010.10.17

Just eight days after a massive earthquake crushed Haiti, another one hit, instilling fresh fears among Haitians still reeling from the first.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20