to have one over the eight
- Fuente de la expresión
- Tureng
- Variantes
- Have one over eight
- Contexto
- At the Reigate Bench, on Monday, Frederick Powell, of Providence-terrace, London-road, Reigate, was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night. —P.C. Kimber proved the case.—Prisoner told the Court that he met and old uncle and had one or two drinks. He added “I suppose I got one over eight”, and I suppose I became a little quarrelsome.”—Fined 5s.
- Fuente del contexto
- Escrita
- Tipo de fuente
- Página web
- Autor
- Pascal Tréguer
- Título de la fuente
- The probable origin of ‘one over the eight’ (‘one drink too many’)
- Año
- s.f.
- Web
- https://wordhistories.net/2017/12/16/one-over-the-eight/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Dialectal UK
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente