in one's cups

Definition

Drunk; in the act of consuming alcohol liberally.

Example Sentences

• "[T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups."
• "They grew only the more sober in their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses."
• "[H]ere he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved."