Had a few drinks? Weren’t going to do shots but did a bunch anyway. Bar hopped and ended up at your favorite bar with goofy shit on the wall and the bartender you’re in love with? Didn’t drink any water before bed. You had a night. But you still wake up feeling fresh! That’s being In The Clear.
Popular and oft’ used term that the order in which alcohol is consumed makes a difference in how you feel. However, it ends up being the quantity of alcohol consumed.
Respected Canadian researchers found in multiple studies that those who drank beer then liquor drank more so they got sicker and had a worse hangover. HENCE: Liquor then beer, you’re in the clear; beer then liquor, never sicker.
Popular and oft’ used term that the order in which alcohol is consumed makes a difference in how you feel. However, it ends up being the quantity of alcohol consumed.
Respected Canadian researchers found in multiple studies that those who drank beer then liquor drank way more so they got sicker and had a worse hangover. HENCE: Beer then liquor, never sicker; liquor then beer, you’re in the clear.
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)