Where does 'Hair of the dog' come from?
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Where does the phrase ‘Hair of the dog’ come from?
Gareth, Thames Ditton
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Name: Andy, Chatham
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Answer: The full phrase is “the hair of the dog that bit you”. The story goes that if you got bitten by a dog, you’d put some of its hair into the wound and it would help it heal. The same thing was applied to alcohol.