tie one on
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tie one on (third-person singular simple present ties one on, present participle tying one on, simple past and past participle tied one on)
- (slang) To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk
- 1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 109, page 77:
- "Let's tie one on!" said Peachy gaily. "Come on, Eve!"
Eve said she couldn't drink a thing. "Besides, it's fattening!"
- 2004, Paul Theroux, "Books: Damned Old Graham Greene," New York Times, 17 Oct. (retrieved 14 Sep 2010):
- Haiti […] was distressed, tropical, ramshackle, overcrowded, poor and on the brink of civil war. […] Its ornate hotels were in a state of decay, yet there was enough alcohol available for a guest to tie one on.
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See also
- Thesaurus:drunk
References
- tie one on at OneLook Dictionary Search