eye of the beer holder
- idiom
- Informal
:
el ojo del bebedor
- After a few drinks, he joked that beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Examples
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The sign in the pub said, 'Remember, it's all in the eye of the beer holder.'
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Her questionable taste in fashion was explained away by the phrase, 'eye of the beer holder.'
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In the eye of the beer holder, everyone looks attractive!
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After a few drinks, it's all about the eye of the beer holder.
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After a few drinks, he joked that beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
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The sign in the pub said, 'Remember, it's all in the eye of the beer holder.'
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In his tipsy state, he laughed and declared that it must be the eye of the beer holder at play.
Synonyms
A joke that people look more attractive after drinking alcohol
Surface Forms
Morphology
eyes + of + the + beer + holder
This phrase is a humorous pun on 'eye of the beholder' — knowing 'eye', 'beer' and 'holder' lets a learner infer that it refers to perception being affected by beer, but the specific witty play on the original proverb is not strictly compositional. Understanding the joke fully requires familiarity with the idiom and cultural wordplay, so the relation between parts and meaning is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Eye of the beer holder is a funny play on the old saying eye of the beholder. It jokingly suggests that after a few beers a person's eye sees others as more attractive because the person is the beer holder, so it means 'beauty depends on how much you have drunk'.
