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hair of the dog that bit one en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Synonym of hair of the dog.
   • Back they both went most lovingly to the house, and Jack wakened up Coomara; and perceiving the old fellow to be rather dull, he bid him not be cast down, for 'twas many a good man's case; said it all came of his not being used to the potyeen, and recommended him, by way of cure, to swallow a hair of the dog that bit him. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 537:

Synonyms

hair of the dog