Where does 'hair of the dog' come from?
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The cure may have originated in Canaan, 1200 years before our era. Archaeologists have found a Canaanite text concerning "a god getting drunk and having to be carried home to bed." At the end of the text was a recipe[1] for a hangover cure, perhaps the original hair of the dog
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Found this in urban dictionary. hair of the dog An alcoholic beverage consumed as a hangover rememdy. The phrase comes from the expression "hair of the dog that bit you", meaning that the best cure for what ails you is to have some more of it. In ancient times it was literally used to say that if a dog were to bite you, putting the dog's hair into the wound would heal it. "Like cures like". This hangover remedy is not recommended because a) it leads to a bad habit of drinking during the day and b)it doesn't really work very well. Still, this method works about as well as most other hangover remedies
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A dog?
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