brick in one's hatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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brick in one's hat

1. (New England, obsolete, idiomatic) Drunkenness.
   • 1846 November, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33:

     Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’

   • 1849, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, pages 177–178:

     Her husband had taken to the tavern, and often came home very late, “with a brick in his hat,” as Sally expressed it.

使用する際の注意点

Used in various constructions, particularly “with a brick in his hat” and “to have a brick in one’s hat”, meaning “to be drunk”.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:drunkenness

関連する語

• ants in one's pants
• flea in one's ear
• frog in one's throat
• thorn in one's side
• wolf in one's stomach

参照

• Richard Hopwood Thornton, An American Glossary, Volume 1, 1912, p. 101
• Hendrickson, Robert (2000) The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 239