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Snakes in his Boots (To have)

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To suffer from D.T. (delirium tremens). This is one of the delusions common to those so afflicted.

“He’s been pretty high on whisky for two or three days, … and they say he’s got snakes in his boots now.”—The Barton Experiment, chap. ix,

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Smith of Nottingham
Smith’s Prize-man
Smithfield
Smoke
Smoke Farthings
Smoke Silver
Snack
Snails have no sex
Snake-Stones
Snake in the Grass
Snakes in his Boots (To have)
Snap-Dragons
Snap of the Fingers
Snap One’s Nose Off
Snarling Letter (Latin, litera canina)
Sneck Posset
Sneezed
Sneezing
Snickersnee
Snider Rifle
Snob