| 单词 | the morning after |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe morning after (the night before) P2. the morning after (the night before): the morning after a bout of drinking, a morning on which a person has a hangover; (in extended use) the morning after any night of excessive revelry. Also used adjectivally. Cf. morning-after adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > effects of excessive drinking ale passion1593 pot verdugo1616 barley-mood1790 katzenjammer1849 Monday head1892 swollen head1898 hangover1904 the morning after (the night before)1909 morning-after1937 whitey1993 1909 E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. xvi. 256 ‘I'm all right,’ said the girl... ‘That's what we all of us says, when it comes to be the morning after,’ said Mrs. Delarue. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 225 It was blue o'clock the morning after the night before. 1927 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 157 There wasn't much doubt what Jimmy had been up to. He was altogether ‘the morning after’. 1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia v. 28 She sat up and looked at herself in the mirror. ‘The morning after! And my face looks like it.’ 1961 S. Plath in London Mag. Aug. 10 Musky as a lovebed the morning after. 1973 L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters xiv. 215 ‘I felt awful. I didn't care whether I lived or died..’ ‘A classic case of the morning-after-the-night-before feeling.’ 2000 Oldie Dec. 18/2 A man who admitted to the judge, on the morning after the night before, that he had been a little inebriated all right, having sponged 32 pints in the course of the evening. < as lemmas |
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