Spiked eggnog
If at the end of 2016 someone told me I would spend nearly the entire year watching North Korea test long-range missiles that could potentially strike the U.S. homeland and a hydrogen bomb, with prominent national leaders daily weighing the chances of potential war, I would have said they sipped a little too much spiked eggnog.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/18/why-2018-will-be-north-koreas-year.html
What does the last phrase mean here?
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contraposition eggnog a drink made from eggs mixed with milk, sugar, and alcohol contraposition spiked containing alcohol contraposition I would have said they sipped a little too much spiked eggnog. I would have said that had drunk too much alcohol. ~ I would have said that they were talking nonsense as if they were drunk.
- contraposition eggnog a drink made from eggs mixed with milk, sugar, and alcohol contraposition spiked containing alcohol contraposition I would have said they sipped a little too much spiked eggnog.
- I would have said that had drunk too much alcohol.
- ~ I would have said that they were talking nonsense as if they were drunk.
- CJ
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contrapositioneggnoga drink made from eggs mixed with milk, sugar, and alcohol
contrapositionspiked
containing alcohol
contrapositionI would have said they sipped a little too much spiked eggnog.
I would have said that had drunk too much alcohol.
~ I would have said that the
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