"One over the eight" nghĩa là gì?

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"One over the eight" = quá tám -> nghĩa là say tí bỉ. Mọi người thường uống 8 panh bia (1 panh = khoảng nửa lít) là đủ nên uống hơn 8 panh là rất say rồi.

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Don't listen to him. You can see he's had one over eight!

I suppose it wasn’t often that the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School came across a man public-spirited enough to call their head master a silly ass, and they showed their appreciation in no uncertain manner. Gussie may have been one over the eight, but as far as the majority of those present were concerned he was sitting on top of the world.

McDowell’s interests had turned to jazz while he was a student at the Chelsea School of Art in London in the 1950s. He took up (bắt đầu) the trombone and with fellow students formed a band as “an art school Dadaist lark”. It was known by a range of names, including Paul McDowell and his Gentlemen Ravers. Over several years, this group evolved into the Temperance Seven, which had nine members, so that it could be “one over the eight” (a demotic (bình dân) term for intoxication).


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