have the sun in one's eyes

English

Verb

have the sun in one's eyes

1. To have difficulty seeing because of bright sunlight shining directly at one's eyes.
2. (slang) To be drunk.
   • 2004, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, page 182:

     "What happened to the old man?" he said.
     "He got the sun in his eyes."
     "I don't believe it. The old man really drunk? He don't get drunk."

Related terms

• in someone's eyes

References

• (be drunk): Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).