| 单词 | the sun is over the yardarm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard) f. colloquial (originally Nautical) the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard) and variants: it is time for the first alcoholic drink of the day. Now somewhat archaic.The sun was reckoned to rise above the foreyard of a ship by around 11 a.m. or noon, when the first ration of rum or the like was served. In later (non-nautical) usage the phrase is sometimes loosely applied to a later time of day; cf. sundowner n. 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking times bever1499 the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard)1839 opening time1841 chucking-out time1909 permitted hours1919 stop-tap1938 happy hour1951 the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > noon [phrase] > it is noon the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard)1839 1839 Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 288 The chapling said he guessed the sun was over the fore-yard, and baled us out another horn o' licker all round. 1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. xxiv. 454 The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should... Also he has no decent notions about the sun being over the yard-arm or below the horizon. 1903 H. Holmes Life & Adventures 11 The sun's over the fore yard; no doubt they have spliced the main brace. 1964 Amer. Notes & Queries 3 23/2 Frequent reference is made to the undesirability of drinking before ‘the sun has crossed the yardarm’. 1979 A. Morice Murder in Outline iii. 26 I had promised to take a jugful of dry martini with him and Vera..as soon as the sun went over the yardarm. 2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. (Travel section) 4 Once the sun's over the yardarm, have a gin and tonic served in a glass as big as a goldfish bowl. < as lemmas |
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