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Three Sheets to the Wind
Common words or phrases of nautical origin that have taken on different or metaphorical meanings. Chained_bear and I tossed a coin over who would make the list. I won (or lost, depending on how you...
scuttlebutt, taken aback, brass monkey, boot camp, clean bill of health, three sheets to t..., the devil to pay, between the devil..., by and large, the whole nine yards, mind your ps and qs, slush fund and 116 more...
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Drinky~time, or That Most Happy of Hours
impairement! oh lugubrious libations of unenviable inebriation
all sorts, cock ale, soot-tea, stirrup-dram, steel-wine, aurum potable, burying-drink, ambergris, butler's ale, metheglin, morning purl, mum and 45 more...
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Some scrumptious ones
clamberskull, doldrums, apostasy, eulogistic, shallows, copacetic, glad rags, leviathan of fore..., cogent, pantheon, deus ex machina, laissez-faire and 11 more...
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Where's My Cheap Slangshot?
Absolute depravity.
blue ruin, oofay, never~was, claptrap, the clanks, hokum, letch, mulligrubs, shiever, wheep, fantods, bilge and 54 more...
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yarb This expression chimes with the idea of drink as a restorative, i.e. that drink serves to splice one's spiritual main brace. Unfortunately I'll have to go unspliced tonight though. Jan 8, 2008
reesetee I hadn't either. It reminds me of "hoisting a jar." :-) Count me in! Jan 7, 2008
chained_bear I never heard this as a term for having a drink after a hard day's work, but I'm going to use it from now on. Starting today.
Who wants to splice the main brace with me?! Jan 7, 2008
reesetee To have a drink together. Presumably comes from the practice of tending to a ship's damaged gear immediately after battle. One of the first chores was to repair sails and braces (lines passing through blocks that held up the sails). It was the custom, after the main braces were properly spliced, to serve grog to the crew. This term thus came to refer to having a drink after a hard day's work. Jan 7, 2008