in one's cups | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Drunk; in the act of consumingalcoholliberally.1809,Washington Irving, chapter 6, inKnickerbocker's History of New York:[T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merryin their cups.1852,Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, inThe Blithedale Romance:They grew only the more soberin their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses.1906,E. W. Hornung, chapter 1, inThe Shadow of the Rope:[H]ere he gambled, there he drank; andin his cupsevery virtue dissolved.2006November 17, Margaret Hawkins, “Home Alone: Blackmon photos find solitude among domestic chaos”, inChicago Sun-Times, page NC50:The woman on the other hand isin her cupsswigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow.

Examples:

EN: But I'm afraid, after a while, what had in one's cups seemed amusing no longer felt... well, quite right.
ES: Pero me temo, que luego de un tiempo, lo que tenia en sus manos parecia magnifico ya no se sentia mas... bueno, bastante cierto.

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