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in one's cups informal Drunk: he became mellow and humorous when in his cups...- But this particular night, at the school dance, he was in his cups - half a mickey of gin, to be exact, trying to repair his relationship with the wonderful woman who would soon become his wife and the mother of his three children.
- Till the day he left, and no doubt still among the old guys in their cups, the Railway boss was known to all as ‘Call-me-Dave’.
- It sounds like a question for law students in their cups, but it actually entered a federal courtroom earlier this year.
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