| 单词 | to be in beer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in beer b. buttered beer: see buttered beer n. at buttered adj. Compounds. to be in beer: to be under the effects of beer, to be more or less intoxicated; on the beer: on a bout of drinking (cf. on the booze at booze n. 2b); beer and skittles: see skittle n. 1b; small beer: see as main entry; to think small beer of: see small beer n. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > be drunk bewetc1400 to be in beer1532 to have one's cap set1546 to have a pot in the pate1655 to be bit by a barn weasel1673 to have been in the sun1770 to have been in the sunshine1818 to have (also get) the sun in one's eyes1841 to have a brick in one's hat1847 stimulate1882 to beer up1892 to be (the) worse for liquor1893 to have a few1903 to have a heat on1912 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adverb] > on a drinking bout on (also upon) the spree1847 on a spree1847 on the booze1850 on the scoop1871 on the beer1887 on the bash1901 on a whizzer1910 on the piss1929 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 423/1 I stande in so great peryll of chokyng with lucre, as Tindal standeth in daunger of choking with the bones of buttred beere. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 163 To suckle fooles, and chronicle small Beere. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Rous Diary (1856) 66 Warren (that was in beere)..urged the maide to ride behinde him. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶8 I allow a double Quantity of Malt to my small Beer. 1840 T. De Quincey Style in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 8/1 Should express her self-esteem by the popular phrase that she did not ‘think small beer of herself.’ 1880 Academy 25 Sept. 219 Two such chroniclers of small beer as Boswell and Erskine. 1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 6/2 When a man is in a fuddled state it is said that ‘he is on the beer’. 1959 Listener 4 June 980/2 A riotous evening on the beer. < as lemmas |
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