Wrapt Up In Warm Flannel (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Wrapt Up In Warm Flannel

Drunk with spirituous liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother’s smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies. To be wrapt up in any one: to have a good opinion of him, or to be under his influence.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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