brown bottle flu
- noun
- Slang
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- She called in sick to work, blaming the brown bottle flu after last night's party.
Examples
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Many college students have experienced the brown bottle flu on a Sunday morning.
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He's got brown bottle flu again!
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He claimed the brown bottle flu was the reason for missing his early meeting.
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I have brown bottle flu.
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He claimed the brown bottle flu was the reason for missing his early meeting.
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Many college students have experienced the brown bottle flu on a Sunday morning.
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She called in sick to work, blaming the brown bottle flu after last night's party.
Synonyms
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A feeling of sickness after drinking alcohol, often with headache and nausea
A mild illness or hangover after drinking many mixed drinks
A very bad headache or hangover after drinking too much alcohol
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'brown' + 'bottle' readily evoke beer in brown bottles and 'flu' denotes an illness, so a learner can infer an illness related to drinking; however the use of 'flu' metaphorically to mean 'hangover' and the idiomatic collocation 'brown bottle' as shorthand for beer require cultural/slang knowledge. Because the overall meaning is a shifted, humorous extension rather than strictly compositional, it is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The phrase brown bottle flu comes from the image of common beer in a brown bottle and the word flu used jokingly for feeling sick after drinking too much. That's why people use it to mean 'a hangover' from beer.