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When people have a hangover and they drink some more to relieve its symptoms, what it called?
When people have a hangover and they drink some more to relieve its symptoms, what it called?
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Hair of the dog (that bit you).
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Hair of the dog (that bit you).
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@Strewth 👀 Sounds so weird for me
Just in Russian we have just one verb for this, it's like there's a hungover, and if you want to drink something to relieve your hungover it'll be kinda "to hungover"
But this phrase is long and very strange...
If I see my friend is drinking something in the morning and I'd like to say:
hehe, hungovering? (I used it as a verb to show what I want to say) it's like: hehe, drinking?
I mean I'd say just 1 word in this case (this verb) but should I say this phrase which is above instead? And how to do it naturally?
Thank you so much for help
Just in Russian we have just one verb for this, it's like there's a hungover, and if you want to drink something to relieve your hungover it'll be kinda "to hungover"
But this phrase is long and very strange...
If I see my friend is drinking something in the morning and I'd like to say:
hehe, hungovering? (I used it as a verb to show what I want to say) it's like: hehe, drinking?
I mean I'd say just 1 word in this case (this verb) but should I say this phrase which is above instead? And how to do it naturally?
Thank you so much for help
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It’s not a phrase I would normally use, but yes, I think you’d just look at him and say, “Hair of the dog, eh?” or something like that. Note that “eh” as an exclamation sounds like “ay”.
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@alejandroelj it’s from an old “treatment” for rabies - rubbing some hair from the same dog into the bite. I’m pretty sure that didn’t work either :)
https://grammarist.com/idiom/hair-of-the-dog/
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@Strewth Understandable.
But if the person is doing something (trying to drink obviously in the morning) and I walk by and ask what are you doing? His/her answer - hair of the dog??
Is it like a verb?
But if the person is doing something (trying to drink obviously in the morning) and I walk by and ask what are you doing? His/her answer - hair of the dog??
Is it like a verb?
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@alejandroelj see, the normal answer would be “having a drink”, or something like that. You could say something like, “Hair of the dog, mate (optional)”. It’s just a kind of catch-all expression.
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@alejandroelj kind of - I mean it in the sense that it captures the entire situation in one phrase.
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