Talk:one too many

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one too many

"One" + "too many". You can also say "a few too many"; for that matter, you can also say "a few" (as in, "he's an O.K. dancer once he's had a few to loosen up"). —Ruakh_TALK 02:23, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Actually, quite a few of Angel drinks (talk • contribs)'s new entries seem SOP to me. —Ruakh_TALK 02:24, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Why do you guys still bother with Wonderfool? -- Prince Kassad 02:55, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

When SemperBlotto's around he's generally more bold about deleting things that should be deleted. I just don't have the confidence to do the same. —Ruakh_TALK 11:31, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

This is not an adverb. It is a simple fused-head nominal construction, with the omitted noun potentially being anything. The idiom is that, in the absence of strong contrary context, the omitted noun is (deprecated template usage) drink. It is also often an example of (deprecated template usage) meiosis as the excess quantity is often more than one. It is euphemistic. The same analysis would apply to a few too many, except it is less meiotic. OTOH, the idiomatic usage may only rarely occur except after a form of (deprecated template usage) have so it should perhaps be moved to [[have one too many]] (and [[have a few too many]] be added). DCDuring TALK 13:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Probably keep, it has implied meaning, the meaning DCDuring points out, and is thus "its full meaning cannot be easily derived from the meaning of its separate components". Mglovesfun (talk) 19:56, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

kept -- Liliana • 04:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

SoP: three too many

The receptionist was flushed,, as if she'd had three too many glasses of champagne --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:32, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

after one too many beers

What meaning is used in (the determiner?) after one too many beers? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:34, 18 April 2021 (UTC)