"one too many" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-one too many.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From one drink (of an alcoholic beverage) too many. Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} one too many
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one, too, many.
    Sense id: en-one_too_many-en-noun-A84IMAbI
  2. (idiomatic) One or more servings too many of alcohol, leading to drunkenness. Tags: idiomatic Translations ((idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol): yhden juoman liikaa (Finnish), un verre de trop [masculine] (French), einen über den Durst trinken (German), et glass for mye (Norwegian Bokmål), перебор (perebor) (Russian), unas copas de más [feminine, plural] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-one_too_many-en-noun-Oy-XYIZs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of '(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol': 17 83

Download JSON data for one too many meaning in English (2.4kB)

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  "etymology_text": "From one drink (of an alcoholic beverage) too many.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "We’ve got three too many."
        },
        {
          "text": "Even if one child is hurt that is one too many."
        }
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          "text": "He's had one too many."
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        "(idiomatic) One or more servings too many of alcohol, leading to drunkenness."
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          "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
          "word": "yhden juoman liikaa"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
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          "word": "un verre de trop"
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          "_dis1": "17 83",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
          "word": "einen über den Durst trinken"
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          "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
          "word": "et glass for mye"
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          "roman": "perebor",
          "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
          "word": "перебор"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
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          ],
          "word": "unas copas de más"
        }
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  "etymology_text": "From one drink (of an alcoholic beverage) too many.",
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        {
          "text": "We’ve got three too many."
        },
        {
          "text": "Even if one child is hurt that is one too many."
        }
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one, too, many."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
      "word": "yhden juoman liikaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "un verre de trop"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
      "word": "einen über den Durst trinken"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
      "word": "et glass for mye"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perebor",
      "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
      "word": "перебор"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(idiomatic) one or more servings too many of alcohol",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "unas copas de más"
    }
  ],
  "word": "one too many"
}

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