| 单词 | to cheer but not inebriate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cheer but not inebriate to cheer but not inebriate and variants: (of drink, esp. tea) to refresh or invigorate a person without causing drunkenness. Similarly to cheer and inebriate, etc. Chiefly humorous.In quot. 1744 with reference to tar-water; later chiefly following Cowper's jocular application of the phrase to tea (quot. 1785). ΚΠ 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §217 The luminous spirit lodged in the native balsam of pines..is of a nature so mild..as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 39 The cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table v. 123 Had freely partaken of the cup which cheers and likewise inebriates. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 290 A cup..which to my mind neither cheers nor inebriates. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xiv. 154 I drew nigh..and read: ‘tea made here, the draught which cheers but not inebriates.’ 1908 Bull. (Sydney) 10 Dec. 21/1 The long sleever that cheers and the Jimmy Woodser that inebriates. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) iv. 32 With no other stimulation than the cup that cheers but does not inebriate. 2014 Western Morning News (Nexis) 1 Dec. 18 I had just had a cup that cheers but not inebriates, well a mug actually. < as lemmas |
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