be the worse for drink
English
Verb
- To be drunk.
- 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
- Driver James Mitchell was the worse for drink. When he took duty at Carlisle on the previous evening, he was smelling of whisky; there were signs of drink on him at Beattock, and when they left Carstairs on the return journey, he was worse.
Further reading
- “the worse for drink”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “the worse for drink”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
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