| 单词 | to have tin hats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have tin hats 2. slang (chiefly Nautical). In phrases referring to drunkenness, as to have tin hats, to have on one's tin hat: to be drunk. Cf. sense B. ΚΠ 1896 Chapman's Mag. Apr. 370 They had only had ‘tin hats’ the night before; and no power on earth could rouse them from their slumbers this morning... Ingram understood that a ‘tin hat’ was considered a jocular rather than a serious malady. 1901 G. Goodenough Handy Man Afloat & Ashore 162 A man who has drunk not wisely but too well is described as ‘tin-hatted’, or as having on his ‘tin hat’. 1910 Western Monthly Apr. 76/1 ‘Ay tank Ay ben lettle bit stewed last night,’ said the Swede frankly. ‘Day copper say Ay have ay case of tin hats.’ < as lemmas |
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