英语词汇half-seas over的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

half-seas over. Half-seas over indicates a person quite drunk but not yet under the table. British in origin and dat- ing back to the late 17th century, the phrase probably origi- nated in the resemblance of a drunk’s stagger to that of a man walking on the deck of a storm-battered ship, one side heeled over in the sea. Or perhaps the expression is a corruption of op-zee-zober (“oversea beer”), a strong, heady beer imported from Holland in the 17th century. The earlier phrase halfway across the sea for a drunk suggests the former theory, however.

词汇	half-seas over
词源	half-seas over. Half-seas over indicates a person quite drunk but not yet under the table. British in origin and dat- ing back to the late 17th century, the phrase probably origi- nated in the resemblance of a drunk’s stagger to that of a man walking on the deck of a storm-battered ship, one side heeled over in the sea. Or perhaps the expression is a corruption of op-zee-zober (“oversea beer”), a strong, heady beer imported from Holland in the 17th century. The earlier phrase halfway across the sea for a drunk suggests the former theory, however.
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