see snakes

see snakes

To hallucinate or see things incorrectly due to acute alcohol intoxication or withdrawal. My dad said that he saw snakes for a while after he gave up drinking. You're going to start seeing snakes if you don't stop drinking so much.
See also: see, snake
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

seeing snakes

verb
See seeing pink elephants
See also: seeing, snake
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • seeing snakes
  • seeing pink spiders
  • pink spiders
  • see pink spiders
  • seeing pink elephants
  • see pink elephants
  • goggle
  • beer goggles
  • gargler
  • rolling high
References in periodicals archive
It is ironic that people see snakes as aggressive considering how we and the snakes behave.
Walking with snakes
If anything, the Shasta squirrels turned out to be more aggressive provocateurs than the animals that see snakes all the time, Coss says.
Hey, Snake--Rattle This!