case of wetbrain
- noun
- Slang
:
síndrome de cerebro mojado
- After years of heavy drinking, he realized he had a case of wetbrain and struggled to remember simple tasks.
Examples
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After years of drinking, he developed a case of wetbrain.
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Many alcoholics suffer from a case of wetbrain over time.
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After his fourth night out, he said he had a case of wetbrain and couldn't focus at work.
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She joked about having a case of wetbrain, but her friends were worried about her heavy drinking.
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You don't want to end up with a case of wetbrain after drinking that much every weekend.
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If you drink excessively, you might end up with a case of wetbrain, which affects your memory and thinking.
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She joked about her case of wetbrain after a crazy weekend, but her friends were genuinely concerned about her health.
Synonyms
A kind of memory loss caused by many years of heavy drinking that affects recent memories but not old ones
Antonyms
How Impaired
- Specialized
21
3.7
- Specialized
76
6.9
- Slang
7
7.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
case + of + wetbrain
While 'case of' and the nouns 'wet' + 'brain' would signal to a B1 learner that this refers to a medical/brain condition, the specific sense — cognitive impairment caused by prolonged alcohol use — is a specialized, culture-specific medical idiom not directly inferable from the literal words. Learners might guess a problem with the brain but would not reliably predict the alcohol-related etiology without prior exposure, so the expression is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Case of wetbrain may come from the image of a brain so wet with alcohol that it cannot work well. So, it means 'can't think clearly' after heavy drinking.