have the sun in one's eyes
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
- To have difficulty seeing because of bright sunlight shining directly at one's eyes.
- (slang) To be drunk.
- 2004, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, page 182:
- "What happened to the old man?" he said.
"He got the sun in his eyes."
"I don't believe it. The old man really drunk? He don't get drunk."
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References[edit]
- (be drunk): Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).