Seeing pink elephants In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "seeing pink elephants", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Jimmy Hung calendar 2019-10-01 01:10

Meaning of Seeing pink elephants (redirected from see pink elephants )

Variants:

see pink spiders , see snakes , see pink elephants

See pink elephants verb phrase

To see or hear things that are not really there due to acute alcohol intoxication or withdrawal

My dad has often seen pink elephants since he gave up drinking.

After drinking only two bottles of beer, I started to see pink elephants.

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The period after someone has given up drugs or alcohol that they were dependent on, and the unpleasant mental and physical effects that this causes

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Drunk

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cork high and bottle deep

If you describe someone as cork high and bottle deep, they had too much alcohol; Very drunk

Grammar and Usage of See pink elephants

Verb Forms

  • saw pink elephants
  • seeing pink elephants
  • seen pink elephants
  • sees pink elephants

The verb "see" should be conjugated according to its tense.

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