Native Return

Thanks, Anstey. "In my cups" is an old idiom (I think).

Just got this from google: 

"IN HIS CUPS" - "Drunk. Long ago the phrase meant both drunk and participating in a drunken bout. It appears in one of the Apocyrphal books of the Bible (I Esdras 3:22): 'And when they are in their cups, they forget their loue(love) both to friends and brethren.' The Romans had similar expressions, such as Cicero's 'in thy cups, in the midst of thy revels'
(in ipsis tuis immanibus poculis), suggesting the great age of the association of 'cup' (poculum) and 'carousal.'"
"The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).

I'm sure I've come across it in Shakespeare also...BRgds.,Alan.