Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—V

Vino

In vino veritas. In wine is truth, meaning when persons are more or less intoxicated they utter many things they would at other times conceal or disguise. (Latin.)

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