| 单词 | to wet the other eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wet the other (or t'other) eye d. to wet the other (or t'other) eye: to drink one glass after another. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink another glass to wet the other (or t'other) eye1745 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 89 The Officers..filled him out a Bumper of Cherry Brandy, which when he had drank they forced another upon him, persuading him to wet the other Eye. 1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins xiii, in New Monthly Mag. Take one more jug of beer—wet t'other eye, we call it. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxii. 149 Moisten your clay, wet the other eye, drink man. a1845 R. H. Barham Hints Hist. Play in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 341 There's not a drop left him to ‘wet t'other eye’. < as lemmas |
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