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The Morning After

 
Idioms: morning after, the

The unpleasant results of an earlier activity, especially overindulgence in alcohol. For example, A headache is just one of the symptoms of the morning after. This expression originated in the late 1800s as a synonym for a hangover (and was often put as the morning after the night before). By the mid-1900s, however, it was also being used more loosely for the aftereffects of staying up late.


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The Morning After is the title of a number of creative works:

It may also refer to the morning-after pill, a contraceptive pill intended to prevent fertilization and/or implantation, that would otherwise result in pregnancy, if taken within 48 hours after intercourse.


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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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