Meaning of hair of the dog | Babel Free

Definitions

An alcoholic drink, particularly when taken the morning after to cure a hangover.

idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: coffin dodger, corpse reviver, pick-me-up, eye-opener; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage”

“I'll be right back. I just need a little hair of the dog that bit me.”

“But with the morning cool repentance came. I felt, in the keenest manner, the violence and absurdity of my conduct, and was obliged to confess that wine and passion had lowered my intellects. . . . I descended to the breakfast hall, like a criminal to receive sentence. . . . [H]e poured out a large bumper of brandy, exhorting me to swallow "a hair of the dog that had bit me."”

“Ha ha! Put a good face upon it, and drink again. Another hair of the dog that bit you, captain!”

“The good times are killing me / Enough hair of the dog to make myself an entire rug”

CEFR level