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hair of the dog
解醉酒

Date: Aug 04 2011

Themes: Party

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“This is the trick I told you about last night. Hair of the dog. Let’s just call it that.”

- Jeff after a night of drinking with Jason.

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what made you sick will make you better

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Language is full of interesting bits of history. Sometime in the past, it was thought that if you got sick from a dog bite, you could be cured by hair of the dog that bit you. No one knew it at the time, but a great drinking idiom was born.

After a night of extreme alcohol consumption, you will not feel well. You may have a hangover. A little more alcohol can sometimes help you feel better. So what made you sick also cures you, just like the story of the hair of the dog.

There is no dog involved in this hangover cure. Of course, Jason doesn’t know that when Jeff tells him some hair of the dog will make him feel better. He finds a dog, and just when he is about to eat some hair, Ella saves him by explaining that hair of the dog just means more alcohol in the morning.

Do you have a favorite hangover cure? Or does hair of the dog work for you?

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“It looks like you drank too much last night, why don’t you try some hair of the dog.”

“I don’t get hangovers. I just need to save some alcohol for the morning. A little hair of the dog tomorrow and I’ll be just fine.”

“The best hangover cure I know is some hair of the dog that bit you. A little more alcohol the next day will make you feel better!”

Winners

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	alcohol drinking so lower the anxious & pain by dearpesar
	An alcoholic beverage consumed as a hangover rememdy. by Talia Do
	an alcoholic drink that cures a hangover by Bojana
	alcoholic drink taken as antidote for a hangover by Bitten by an Arab bug
	it means alcoholic beverage consumed to ease a hangover , the person not to get quickly drunk by Criz search
	My guess is to drink more alcohol to lessen the effect of a hangover. by julito

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Madooka

Germany

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shaerwan

Syrian Arab Republic

nice slang thanks english baby

rhm

Egypt

drinking al cahol is entirely forbidden in islam so it may losr u mind,merci

Maxim Melnichenko

Ukraine

I think that is like to knock fight fire.

marialili

China

I have got it! There is a same word in Chinese means that to solve some problem have to resort to the same person.

baraneman

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I don’t have any experience about it…..

HAPPY STAR

China

Hair of the dog means more alcohol…...

postpone

China

sopmetimes what made you sick also can make you better ,just like tne movie said hair of the dog!

bom222a

Viet Nam

i think he’s about to kiss the dog instead of eating its hair

木兰花

China

it is good idiom, i will remember

Bruce_zhou

China

I like dring,but don’t like drink too much ,just little it’s ok,because i feel not better after i drink so much,but some time i just can not refuse when i was in party.after that ,i will drink much tea to cure and prevent hangover at that time,i think it’s more effection,at least,i feel better after drink some tea,actually,i have never heard that eat dog’s hair can cure hangover,it’s definitely first time to hear that,i don’t believe that,maybe i will try it some time…....

cqzhulei

China

Just so so

fuethio

Ethiopia

I WANT TO SAY DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOLSALRIGHT

ALCHOL DRINK IS SO SO SO BAD

fuethio

Ethiopia

IT SIMMES LIKE FUUNYFOR ME.].,,,,];’

javier armando

Peru

I have a cure for hangover, not more hair of the dog cos it wont help you out at all, just get some sleep and you´ll totally fine :)

gendiss

Indonesia

I cacth the poin what make u sick that will make u better
like when we allergy with something we must to resist with that too,,

” The best hangover cure I know is some hair of the dog that bit you”