Yet another sentence from A Game of Thrones that I don't understand
Here we go
"Jon saw a fat man, red-faced under his beard, sweating through his silks. He walked like a man half in his cups."

What does it mean "He walked like a man half in his cups" ?

Thank you

Question

Yet another sentence from A Game of Thrones that I don't understand
Here we go
"Jon saw a fat man, red-faced under his beard, sweating through his silks. He walked like a man half in his cups."

What does it mean "He walked like a man half in his cups" ?

Thank you

Answer

It means half drunk. When you say or hear someone use the term "in your/his/her cups, that means they are drinking alcohol/whiskey.

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https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/ausp.2016.8.issue-3/ausp-2016-0033/ausp-2016-0033.xml

He walked like a man half in his cups .” (Martin, 2011) . The meaning of the idiom 'in one's cups' given in UsingEnglish .com is the following: if someone is in their cups, they are drunk; or, according to another definition in the Wiktionary: drunk; in the act of consuming alcohol liberally. ... It is a verbless idiom .

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Half in his cups means half drunk.

If he was walking "half in his cups", he must have been walking half-drunk. Tottering or staggering a little, perhaps, like someone who has drunk too much.

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