The Pits

The other day I was reminiscing, with an old friend, about the increasingly distant days of our misspent youth. Inevitably the conversation turned to the dreaded whirling pits.

Whirling Pits, the
Noun, British
A feeling of giddiness and/or nausea, tinged with hallucination, brought on, for instance, by alcohol. The expression describes a condition characterised by lying on one's back, unable to move, while one's stomach heaves and the room whirls about one's head. The helicopters is a synonym.

Let me hasten to add that our whirling was induced by too many pints of wallop, rather than flutes of Moet.

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