Perhaps you have heard
the term ‘three sheets to the wind’. Perhaps you have been described that way
from time to time. Perhaps you did not know that this term originated with
sailing. Three sheets to the wind refers to on a three-masted ship, having the
sheets of the three lower courses loose which will result in the ship
meandering aimlessly downwind. It is also used to describe somebody who has
drunk beyond their tolerance and are helplessly inebriated, not that you would
of course know anyone who ever got in that condition.
