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in one’s cups
- (idiomatic) Drunk; in the act of consuming alcohol liberally.
1809, Washington Irving, chapter 6, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:[T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups.
1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Blithedale Romance:They grew only the more sober in their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses.
1906, E. W. Hornung, chapter 1, in The Shadow of the Rope:[H]ere he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved.
2006 November 17, Margaret Hawkins, “Home Alone: Blackmon photos find solitude among domestic chaos”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page NC50:The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow.
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