English Dictionary

pelt of the dog

名詞

ユーモラス文体 慣用表現 稀用

(rare, humorous, idiomatic) An immoderate, excessive quantity of alcohol drunk the morning after whilst suffering withdrawal symptoms or a hangover, which goes beyond alleviating the complaint to causing drunkenness; compare hair of the dog.

日本語の意味

二日酔いや禁断症状の状態で、症状の緩和を狙うというよりかは、かえって酔っぱらいになるほどの過剰な量の酒を飲む行為（「hair of the dog」に類似する慣用表現）

Bleary-eyed and desperate for relief, he reached for a pelt of the dog and drank until he was more drunk than the night before.

目を腫らしながら救済を求めて、二日酔い直しの酒を手に取り、前の夜よりさらに酔うまで飲んでしまった。

意味（1）

(rare, humorous, idiomatic) An immoderate, excessive quantity of alcohol drunk the morning after whilst suffering withdrawal symptoms or a hangover, which goes beyond alleviating the complaint to causing drunkenness; compare hair of the dog.

There were people — maybe two dozen — in the Knight’s Bar, for lunch, resuscitation, or the pelt of the dog that bit them. Not Yvonne, though. A bit early.