have the sun in one's eyes

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Verb[edit]

have the sun in one's eyes

  1. To have difficulty seeing because of bright sunlight shining directly at one's eyes.
  2. (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).
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