in liquor

in liquor
((be) in liquor (тж. (be) the worse for liquor))
(быть) в нетрезвом состоянии; см. тж. be the worse for drink

My conditions are these: that you do not come to me, but to my clerk; that you do not come here the worse of liquor; and you go away the moment you are paid and have signed a receipt. (R. L Stevenson and L. Osbourne, ‘The Wrecker’, ch. XXII) — Мои условия таковы: вы являетесь не ко мне, а к моему клерку; вы не появляетесь здесь в нетрезвом виде; вы уходите, как только получите деньги и подпишете расписку.

He found his partner to be very disagreeable. Frequently he was the worse for liquor which made him surly. (Th. Dreiser, ‘Sister Carrie’, ch. XXX) — Он обнаружил, что его компаньон - человек очень сварливый. К тому же он выпивал и тогда становился просто невыносим.

He had no wish to be killed by excitable Gascons the worse for liquor. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Then and Now’, ch. XXIX) — Макиавелли вовсе не хотел погибнуть от руки экспансивных гасконцев, бывших к тому же навеселе.

I had it from a man who saw James Brodie when he was the worse o' liquor mad ravin' drunk. (A. J. Cronin, ‘Hatter's Castle’, book II, ch. 4) — Я слышал это от человека, который разговаривал с Джемсом Броуди, когда тот был мертвецки пьян.


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