brick in one's hat

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

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noun

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"Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’"
"Her husband had taken to the tavern, and often came home very late, “with a brick in his hat,” as Sally expressed it."

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ants in one's pants flea in one's ear frog in one's throat thorn in one's side wolf in one's stomach

drunkenness

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