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tie one on

Idioms  

  1. 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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She tied it around her waist and she wanted me to tie one on me and make believe we fell into the bathtub.

From The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered by Hill, Grace Brooks

She proceeded to tie one on each toy or doll, and placed one in a sly corner in the various toy boxes.

From Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. by Shaw, Catharine

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