What is the meaning of THREE SHEETS-TO-THE-WIND. Phrases containing THREE SHEETS-TO-THE-WIND
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"To Be Three Sheets in the Wind"
Casting out all three sails, causing the ship to shudder and stagger like a drunken sailor.
Sheet is British slang for a one pund note. Sheet is slang for an American dollar bill.
Someone who is quite drunk
Having sex. This term was made famous by the 1985 video "Dancing in the Sheets" which starred Mick Jagger and David Bowie [definition correction] {The phrase is incorrectly stated as a David Bowie/Mick Jagger song. They song they sang was "Dancing in the STREETS" which was a remake of the 1960's song by Martha Reeves and the Vandelles. The group that sang. "Dancing in the SHEETS" was the group Shalamar around 1985-86. Subbmitted by Stephanie Bizzle 02-05-2002 Indianapolis, IN USA.
Yourself
Sheets is slang for phencyclidine.
To take refuge in a tree, usually said of a wild animal. To tree oneself, is to conceal oneself behind a tree.
Three sheets to the wind is British slang for very drunk, intoxicated.
Between the sheets is British slang for in bed.
Noun. Paper money, monetary notes. E.g."My new computer cost me 800 sheets."
A sailor who has drunk strong spirits beyond his capacity. Derived from the term used for the situation on a three-masted ship when the sheets fly loosely, and cause the ship to meander aimlessly downwind.
Phrs. Drunk, very intoxicated. E.g."She was three sheets to the wind and still downing gin and tonics quicker than they could pour them."
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imp. & p. p.
of Sheet
n.
A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.
pron.
The objective case of thou. See Thou.
v. t.
To expand, as a sheet.
a.
Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.
v. i.
See Thee.
a.
Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
a.
Having three lobes.
a.
Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
v. t.
The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
prep.
Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
a.
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
v. t.
To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
a.
Having three nerves.
prep.
Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him.
pron.
Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine.
v. t.
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
n.
The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.
a.
To thrive; to prosper.
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