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your body invoicing you, with interest, for last night's good decisions.
means the cluster of miserable physical and mental aftereffects — headache, nausea, fatigue — that follows drinking too much alcohol the night before.
from A transparent compound of "hang" and "over": literally something left hanging over from before, a remnant that lingers into the present. It surfaced in English around the turn of the 20th century, first meaning simply a leftover or survival of something, before narrowing to the boozy morning-after sense we now reach for, ice pack in hand.
- chemical cause
- acetaldehyde, a toxin worse than alcohol itself
- dehydration myth
- alcohol suppresses the hormone that retains water
- no cure
- science has found nothing that reliably works
- darker drinks
- congeners in whiskey hit harder than vodka
- economic toll
- costs billions in lost workplace productivity yearly
the hangover film trilogy — 2009-2013 comedy films starring bradley cooper, directed by todd phillips, grossed $1.7b worldwide
veisalgia — medical term for alcohol hangover symptoms, documented in medical literature since the 1800s