英语词组in (one's) cups是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

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.

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.

in one's cups

Drunk, as in You can't believe anything he says when he's in his cups. [Early 1600s]

in your cups

while drunk. informal

In your cups is now used mainly to mean ‘drunk’, but in former times the phrase could also mean ‘during a drinking bout’. Either could be intended in the passage in the Apocrypha regarding the strength of wine: ‘And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords’ (1 Esdras 3:22).

1948 Vladimir Nabokov Letter I have received your letter… and can only excuse its contents by assuming that you were in your cups when you wrote it.

in (one's) cups

Intoxicated; drunk.

词组	in (one's) cups
释义	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. 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. in one's cups Drunk, as in You can't believe anything he says when he's in his cups. [Early 1600s] in your cups while drunk. informal In your cups is now used mainly to mean ‘drunk’, but in former times the phrase could also mean ‘during a drinking bout’. Either could be intended in the passage in the Apocrypha regarding the strength of wine: ‘And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords’ (1 Esdras 3:22). 1948 Vladimir Nabokov Letter I have received your letter… and can only excuse its contents by assuming that you were in your cups when you wrote it. in (one's) cups Intoxicated; drunk.
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