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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]

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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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