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tie one on
Idioms and Phrases
Become intoxicated; go on a drinking spree. For example, They went out and really tied one on . The precise allusion here—what it is one ties on—is unclear. [ Slang ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
Smith is a Seattle Police officer and attended the Tie One On luncheon as a high school senior.
It’s 2022-23 Project M.I.S.T.E.R. program culminated this month with its 32nd annual Tie One On luncheon at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, with each teen receiving a necktie designed by some of the students in the group.
Their mentor or surrogate mentor showed the teens how to “tie one on.”
It is not exactly shocking news to consumers of mainstream media to hear Republicans on Capitol Hill like to tie one on.
She could not resist a good party, her daughters said, and even in recent years she liked to tie one on weekly with her girlfriends.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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