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tie one on (third-person singular simple present ties one on, present participle tying one on, simple past and past participle tied one on)
- (idiomatic, colloquial, dated) To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk
- Synonym: hang one on
1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 109, page 77:"Let's tie one on!" said Peachy gaily. "Come on, Eve!"
Eve said she couldn't drink a thing. "Besides, it's fattening!"
2004 October 17, Paul Theroux, “Books: Damned Old Graham Greene”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 September 2010:Haiti […] was distressed, tropical, ramshackle, overcrowded, poor and on the brink of civil war. […] Its ornate hotels were in a state of decay, yet there was enough alcohol available for a guest to tie one on.
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