in cups
in (one's) cups
Drunk. When you're in your cups, foolish ideas have a peculiar tendency of sounding like excellent ones. He called to apologize the following morning, claiming that he had been in his cups when he made those rude remarks.
See also: cup
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
in one's cups
Euph. drunk. She doesn't make much sense when she's in her cups. The speaker—who was in his cups—could hardly be understood.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
in (one's) cups
Intoxicated; drunk.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
- a fool and his money are soon parted
- fool and his money are soon parted
- fool and his money are soon parted, a
- parted
- doofus
- backassed
- a mug's game
- be a mug's game
- (there's) no fool like an old fool
- be (not) (one's) bag