Having your last drink of the night.
Usually said three quarters of the way down a pint of beer, i.e., when you actually start to see the bottom of the glass.
From the expression “bottoms up.”
Someone who needs another drink is "seeing bottoms"
Usually said three quarters of the way through a drink, i.e., when you actually start to see the bottom of the glass.
From the expression “bottoms up.”
Stevo: Another smirnoff, D Mac?
D Mac: You betchya, I'm seeing bottoms over here.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)