one over the eight

Example Sentences

• "“Actually,” said the Captain, “and strictly between ourselves, mind, I was run over by a tram in Stoke-on-Trent when I was one-over-the-eight.”"
• "Around 11pm BB King appears onstage, much of his audience one over the eight, talkative but mellow, ready for what is (in my book at least) the experience of a lifetime."
• "To put it mildly, Brendan, you don't appear at your best on television when you've got one over the eight."
• "“She’s had one over the eight,” grinned the driver. Audrey’s first impression was that the man was speaking of her, and she wondered what he meant. But he was looking beyond her, and, following the direction of his eyes, she saw a sight that first sickened and then moved her to pity. Clinging to the rails that bordered the area was a woman. She held tight with one hand, swaying unsteadily, whilst with the other she was manipulating the knocker of the front door of the house next to that place of mystery which she had left."
• "In the evening a middle-aged orderly stopped me in he corridor. He had had one over the eight."
• "Unfortunately he always had one over the eight. He was unable to go into the pub and have a couple of drinks and come out again. He’d have to stay until he’d had too much. Worse than this was the fact that he always drove home in that state. Luckily it was only a couple of miles out in the country."