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Specialty Expressions: HALF-SEAS OVER

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Half-seas OverLiterature1: Dryden.
2: Almost up with one. Now applied to a person almost dead drunk. The phrase seems to be a corruption of the Dutch op-zee zober, "over-sea beer," a strong, heady beverage introduced into Holland from England (Gifford). "Up-zee Freese" is Friezeland beer. The Dutch, half seeunst's over, more than half-sick. (C. K. Steerman.)
3: Ben Jonson: Alchemist, iv. 2.
4: "I am half-seas o'er to death."
5: It hath a heavy cast, `tis upsee Dutch."
6: "I do not like the dulness of your eye,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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