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bravery you rent by the shot and return with interest the next morning.
means the temporary confidence alcohol lends you to do things sober-you would strongly advise against.
from the phrase dates to at least the 1800s, riffing on old dutch courage — soldiers allegedly fortified by gin before battle, because clarity is overrated when bullets are involved.
actual mechanismalcohol dulls fear response, not risk itself
military rootslinked to 17th-century dutch-english wars, oddly
paradoxfeels bold, often reads as reckless
half-lifeconfidence expires long before regret does