Where did the expression 'hair of the dog' come from..?

Question

I know it is sorting a hangover with another drink but where did it come from?

Answer 1

An alcoholic beverage consumed as a hangover rememdy. The phrase comes from the expression "hair of the dog that bit you", meaning that the best cure for what ails you is to have some more of it. In ancient times it was literally used to say that if a dog were to bite you, putting the dog's hair into the wound would heal it. "Like cures like". This hangover remedy is not recommended because a) it leads to a bad habit of drinking during the day and b)it doesn't really work very well. Still, this method works about as well as most other hangover remedies.

Steve: Man, I'm really paying for all those keg stands I did last night.
Tony: Yeah, I'm hurting too. Hair of the dog?
Steve: Why not, man. We got a few beers left in the fridge.

Answer 2

This article is about the phrase. For other uses, see Hair of the dog (disambiguation).

The phrase "Hair of the Dog" is predominately used to refer to imbibing an alcoholic beverage to cure a hangover, although it has seen limited use with respect to other drugs. The intent in so imbibing is to lessen or postpone the effects of the hangover, or the withdrawal from that drug. It is a shortened form of the phrase "The hair of the dog that bit you".

Answer 3

The phrase "Hair of the Dog" is predominately used to refer to imbibing an alcoholic beverage to cure a hangover, although it has seen limited use with respect to other drugs. The intent in so imbibing is to lessen or postpone the effects of the hangover, or the withdrawal from that drug. It is a shortened form of the phrase "The hair of the dog that bit you".

Answer 4

The full phrase is "Hair of the dog that bit you". If the "dog that bit you", or gave you the hangover, was wine, then a little bit of wine the next day should cure the hangover. A "hair" of wine, rather than a full dog!

Answer 5

It was believed before that if a dog bit you, the only way to cure any sicknesss brought on by the bite would be to consume some of that dog's hair

Answer 6

"The origin of the phrase is unclear, but instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of Shakespeare."

Answer 7

sherlock holmes hound so the baskervilles

Answer 8

Don't know, but Jack Nicholson said it in "The Shining"!!! :)




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