Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cups

He was in his cups. Intoxicated. (Latin, inter pocula, inter vina.) (Horace: 3 Odes, vi. 20.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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