have a brick in one's hat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See brick in one's hat.
Verb[edit]
have a brick in one's hat (third-person singular simple present has a brick in one's hat, present participle having a brick in one's hat, simple past and past participle had a brick in one's hat)
- (New England, idiomatic, obsolete) To be drunk.
- 1846 November, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33:
- Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’