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When last night's decisions file their first formal complaint.
means The period right after an event (especially a night of drinking or a rash decision) when consequences, regret, or a hangover show up to collect.
from A straightforward compound of 'morning' and 'after' — in use since at least the 1800s to mean the day following a party or night of excess. It got a specific boost as shorthand for hangover misery, and later lent its name to the 'morning-after pill,' extending the phrase from regret-in-general to a very particular kind of regret.
- biology
- dehydration and inflammation, not booze itself, cause most headaches
- economics
- spawned a billion-dollar industry of pills, pedialyte, and pills
- pill meaning
- emergency contraception works best within 72 hours, not just dawn
- universal law
- texts sent at 2am read very differently at 9am