hair of the dog that bit you
hair of the dog

Perhaps a little hair of the dog that bit you would help?

A drink on the morning after being intoxicated is called "a hair of the dog that bit you"!

Come along, lad," Scott said, "and we'll find a little hair of the dog that bit you.

Or, as the author of this handbook says, "take a hair of the dog that bit you."

This is akin to the old saw about curing a hangover with the hair of the dog that bit you.

Hair of the dog that bit you.

A beer works, as it's also, as the adage goes, "the hair of the dog that bit you," she said.

If the alcohol withdrawal theory is correct, then the hair of the dog that bit you might help by temporarily counteracting the rebound.

One thing that no one advises is more alcohol, the traditional cure known as "hair of the dog that bit you."

As my old friend Rachel Lomax said last week, offering more "hair of the dog that bit you" looks like a really dumb idea.

We can therefore roughly guess what Prof Summers would be like as chairman of the Fed - more hair of the dog that bit you.

The album title is often considered to be a shortened form of the phrase describing a folk hangover cure, "the hair of the dog that bit you".

One famous cure for a hangover named the 'Hair of the Dog That Bit You', has gained notoriety as a somewhat questionable medicinal cure today.

Call it the hair of the dog that bit you: Psychologists say the best way to get over a phobia is to slowly and carefully expose yourself to the very thing you fear.

The pain in my head was almost intolerable, and my mind went back to the stories told by hard drinkers of the cure known as the "hair of the dog that bit you."

Meat Loaf finished his tour and came back two years later for his Hair of the Dog That Bit You world tour, which was a sellout for over 160 concerts.

The idea of drinking again the next morning, called in full "a hair of the dog that bit you" (a reference to a supposed remedy for rabid dog bite), really just postpones the hangover.

And for a further example of dogs deserving derision, how about the--hang on a sec, my side just became spontaneously dirty, and must be washed immediately...there, that's better--how about the old "hair of the dog that bit you"?

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences."