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It's not hear but hair of the dog and it's a phrase that is used to refer to a drug consumed with the intent of lessening or postponing the effects of a hangover.
It is is a shortened form of the phrase the hair of the dog that bit you.
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:02 am Hair of the dog |
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| is a hair of the dog an alcoholic drink ? |
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| #5 (permalink) Tue May 25, 2010 5:25 am Hair of the dog |
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| Torsten wrote: |
It's not hear but hair of the dog and it's a phrase that is used to refer to a drug consumed with the intent of lessening or postponing the effects of a hangover.
It is is a shortened form of the phrase the hair of the dog that bit you. |
Is there any recipe for that......wow.... cool I wish I knew this before.... |
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| #6 (permalink) Tue May 25, 2010 7:02 am Hair of the dog? |
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Usually, it refers to a small amount of whatever you were drinking that gave you the hangover in the first place! Definitely not recommended if you are about to driver, operate machinery or undertake some other work which requires sobriety.
The taking of additional alcohol to cure a hangover has some scientific basis. The symptoms of hangover are partly induced by a withdrawal from alcohol poisoning. A small measure of alcohol may be some temporary relief, even if in the longer term it makes the hangover worse.
The phrase is from the mediaeval belief that, when someone was bitten by a rabid dog, a cure could be made by applying the same dog's hair to the infected wound. (How many people managed to get bitten again when trying to approach the aforesaid dog to acquire the hair to achieve this completely useless remedy isn't known.)
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| #7 (permalink) Wed May 26, 2010 3:32 am Hair of the dog? |
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| Beeesneees wrote: |
Usually, it refers to a small amount of whatever you were drinking that gave you the hangover in the first place! Definitely not recommended if you are about to driver, operate machinery or undertake some other work which requires sobriety.
The taking of additional alcohol to cure a hangover has some scientific basis. The symptoms of hangover are partly induced by a withdrawal from alcohol poisoning. A small measure of alcohol may be some temporary relief, even if in the longer term it makes the hangover worse.
The phrase is from the mediaeval belief that, when someone was bitten by a rabid dog, a cure could be made by applying the same dog's hair to the infected wound. (How many people managed to get bitten again when trying to approach the aforesaid dog to acquire the hair to achieve this completely useless remedy isn't known.) |
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| #8 (permalink) Wed May 26, 2010 3:36 am Hair of the dog? |
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| Beeesneees wrote: |
Usually, it refers to a small amount of whatever you were drinking that gave you the hangover in the first place! Definitely not recommended if you are about to driver, operate machinery or undertake some other work which requires sobriety.
The taking of additional alcohol to cure a hangover has some scientific basis. The symptoms of hangover are partly induced by a withdrawal from alcohol poisoning. A small measure of alcohol may be some temporary relief, even if in the longer term it makes the hangover worse.
The phrase is from the mediaeval belief that, when someone was bitten by a rabid dog, a cure could be made by applying the same dog's hair to the infected wound. (How many people managed to get bitten again when trying to approach the aforesaid dog to acquire the hair to achieve this completely useless remedy isn't known.) |
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