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Just watching Crossing Jordan, someone said three sheets to the wind. I thought it should be six and hubby thought it should be four.
So how many sheets to the wind should it be?


English answers only if you please ?

wink

All celtic answers considered wink

Cheers lol
TV again shows it is superior )

Three sheets to the wind.
You will find the definition on this site ...

http//www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980703


The meaning of many other english sayings/expressions can be found here .....


http//www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm
3.

I guess six sheets would mean a 2-day hangover? lol
Three.

annie @ Mon 16 Jan, 2006 Wrote:
I thought it should be six and hubby thought it should be four.

Cheers :lol:


Whatever the right answer is your husband's nearly drunk and you must be completely sloshed.

You're going to need help to recover from those hangovers Annie... mrgreen

'3 sheets to the wind' - dunno if I could handle even that anymore. razz
Three grin
Dang, this numbers thing gets worse as you get older. Now how old am I? Oh, that's right, old enough to drink and old enough to forget lol
The celtic answer would also be three. grin
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