subs. phr. (common).—1. Delirium tremens; 2. the lighter after-effects of drinking.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—(1) For the former, barrel-fever; black-dog; blue-devils; blue Johnnies (Australian); B. J’s. (idem.); blues; bottle-ache; D. T.; horrors; jim-jams; jumps; pink-spiders; quart-mania; rams; rats; shakes; snakes in the boots; trembles; triangles; uglies.
2. For the latter: a head; hot-coppers; a mouth; a touch of the brewer; a sore head (Scots’).
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Avoir mal aux cheveux (familiar = the hair-ache); les papillons noirs (Cf., pink spiders; also = hypochondria); avoir fumé dans une pipe neuve (= sick of a new clay).
