英语词汇have a brick in one-s hat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

have a brick in one’s hat. To be drunk. According to Mainer Timothy W. Robinson (American Speech, 1948): “At the time [matches] were made so that one using them had to have a brick to scratch them on, and the saying was that he carried a brick in his hat, so when anyone had been to the store [for liq- uor] and walked a little crooked, the boys would say ‘he had a brick in his hat.’ ” This may or may not be the origin of the ex- pression, but it is an old one—Longfellow used it in his poem Kavanaugh (1849).

词汇	have a brick in one-s hat
词源	have a brick in one’s hat. To be drunk. According to Mainer Timothy W. Robinson (American Speech, 1948): “At the time [matches] were made so that one using them had to have a brick to scratch them on, and the saying was that he carried a brick in his hat, so when anyone had been to the store [for liq- uor] and walked a little crooked, the boys would say ‘he had a brick in his hat.’ ” This may or may not be the origin of the ex- pression, but it is an old one—Longfellow used it in his poem Kavanaugh (1849).
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