in one's cups

Idioms and Phrases

Drunk, as in You can't believe anything he says when he's in his cups . [Early 1600s]

Example Sentences

It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.

From Project Gutenberg

The more one drinks, the more one talks, unless one happens to be melancholy in one's cups, and my grisette was not so constituted.

From Project Gutenberg

After drinking, we will chirp a little as is our wont; 'tis not amiss to prate in one's cups' 'So be it,' quoth I; 'we are the very pink and perfection of the true Attic' 'Done with you!' says Callicles, 'frequent quizzings are a whetstone of conversation' 'For my part,' cries Eudemus, '—it grows chill—I like my liquor stronger, and more of it; I am deathly cold; if I could get some warmth into me, I had rather listen to these light- fingered gentry of flute and lyre.'

From Project Gutenberg

After all it was not his fault that I had taken too much of his wine; but a far worse offence was to be sulky in one s cups.

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Related Words

• glazed
• stewed