The old man is down with barrel fever again.The barrel fever hit him in the middle of the night.

My buddy is shaking because of a slight case of the bats.The bats getting you down again, Jed?

You wouldn't think that a society dame like that would have the blue devils, would you?The shakes, or the blue devils, are a sure sign of a serious drinking problem.

He's suffering with the clanks again.Who's the old buzzard shaking with the clanks?

The old wino had the horrors all the time.He has a bad case of the horrors.

The old guy has the jerks.What can they do for the jerks—other than hospitalize the victims?

I get the jitters when I have to talk in public.Too much booze gives me the jitters.

He has the ork-orks. He's a real drunk.Whenever he gets the ork-orks, he gets himself arrested and put in jail where he can sober up.

He's screaming with pink elephants again.He was shaking something awful from the pink spiders.

He said pink elephants were trying to kill him. He's really drunk.If you ever find yourself surrounded with pink elephants, you've got the D.T.s.

The way he was shaking, I knew he had the rats.Most of those old guys down on Fourth Street have the rats.

I got the shakes again. That's what I get for putting soda water in my whisky.In the last stages, they have the shakes all the time.

Freddy had the snozzle-wobbles this morning. He has no idea what caused it.They say that a big glass of milk is good for the snozzle-wobbles.

He seems to have a little touch of the staggers.Larry's laid up with the staggers again.

The old guy was suffering from the zings.What can they do for the zings?