he's had one too many
he's had too much to drink (drunken)
TRANSLATION
one too many = betrunken sein, einen zu viel haben, einen über den Durst trinken one too many = zu viel Alkohol getrunken zu haben --- GOOGLE INDEX one too many: approximately 400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
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"It's not only the calories in the drinks themselves that can help to pile on the pounds, we're also more likely to eat fatty foods when we've had ONE TOO MANY"
(BBC News)
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"It's not only the calories in the drinks themselves that can help to pile on the pounds, we're also more likely to eat fatty foods when we've had ONE TOO MANY"
(BBC News)
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one too many
idiom
- to have drunk too much alcohol
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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American author, cartoonist and humorist James Thurber once said, "One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough." Most of us are aware of the problem of not knowing or realizing when one more beer, glass of wine or cocktail is too much. Alcohol dulls the senses and when you've had one too many, you can become, well...nonsensical.
Like many languages, English has a wide range of options for explaining the drunk condition. Some are brutally honest and highly expressive terms, some are crude and others border on euphemisms. Below is a sample for various situations.
For those who simply want to come right to the point: blasted, besotted, blitzed, bombed, fried, hammered, juiced, lit, looped, plastered, polluted, smashed, snockered, tanked, totalled, trashed wasted, wiped out, wacked.
If you need a more official-sounding term, try: inebriated, intoxicated, under the influence.
Want to make the situation sound less dramatic? Apart from "one too many, " you can use: on the sauce, had a few, primed, tipsy, under the table, or unsteady.
Finally, English has several nice idioms: three sheets to the wind, drunk as a skunk, ripped to the gills, had a shine on, loaded to the hilt.
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"Malcolm should go home, before he has one too many."
idiom
- to have drunk too much alcohol
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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American author, cartoonist and humorist James Thurber once said, "One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough." Most of us are aware of the problem of not knowing or realizing when one more beer, glass of wine or cocktail is too much. Alcohol dulls the senses and when you've had one too many, you can become, well...nonsensical.
Like many languages, English has a wide range of options for explaining the drunk condition. Some are brutally honest and highly expressive terms, some are crude and others border on euphemisms. Below is a sample for various situations.
For those who simply want to come right to the point: blasted, besotted, blitzed, bombed, fried, hammered, juiced, lit, looped, plastered, polluted, smashed, snockered, tanked, totalled, trashed wasted, wiped out, wacked.
If you need a more official-sounding term, try: inebriated, intoxicated, under the influence.
Want to make the situation sound less dramatic? Apart from "one too many, " you can use: on the sauce, had a few, primed, tipsy, under the table, or unsteady.
Finally, English has several nice idioms: three sheets to the wind, drunk as a skunk, ripped to the gills, had a shine on, loaded to the hilt.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Malcolm should go home, before he has one too many."
