have a brick in one's hat

English

Etymology

See brick in one's hat.

Verb

have a brick in one's hat

  1. (New England, idiomatic, obsolete) to be drunk
    • 1846 November 1, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33:
      Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’
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