单词 | to drink one's eyes out |
释义 | > as lemmasto drink one's eyes out (of one's head) g. colloquial or slang. In various expressions relating to drinking or drunkenness, as to drink one's eyes out (of one's head) (cf. drink v.1 12c). See also to have a drop in one's eye at drop n. 6, to wet the other (or t'other) eye at wet v. 7d. ΚΠ 1584 T. Lupton Dream of Deuill & Diues sig. A8v For I were as good drinke mine eies out whiles I am aliue, as haue the wormes eate them out when I am dead. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 197 O he's drunke..his eyes were set at eight i'th morning. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 9 Drinke seruant Monster..thy eies are almost set in thy head. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 41 Yet you may drink your eyes out sir. 1822 Brighton Mag. May 521 It is soberly better for both eyes than what is anacreontically called a ‘drop in the eye’. 1959 C. Logue Songs 6 I drank my eyes out of my head And wet Her shilling with my fears. 1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 174 Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. 788 Lake Shore Rd. Private. Drink your eyes out. < as lemmas |
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