have the sun in one's eyes

English

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Verb

have the sun in one's eyes (third-person singular simple present has the sun in one's eyes, present participle having the sun in one's eyes, simple past and past participle had the sun in one's eyes)

  1. To have difficulty seeing because of bright sunlight shining directly at one's eyes.
  2. (slang) To be drunk.
    • 2004, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, page 182:
      "What happened to the old man?" he said.
      "He got the sun in his eyes."
      "I don't believe it. The old man really drunk? He don't get drunk."

References

  • (be drunk): Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).
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