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词组 cup
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cup

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).

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

not your cup of tea not what you like or are interested in. informal

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