oblivious) customers that, if they were too rowdy, they might spill their drink.
Three Sheets to the Wind – is a sailor’s expression, from the days of sailing ships. The terminology of sailing ships is excessively complicated and, every time I refer to it, people say I’ve got it wrong, usually contradicting each other. So treat what follows as a broad-brush treatment, open to dispute on the fine points. We ignorant landlubbers might think that a sheet is a sail, but, in traditional sailing-ship days, a sheet was a rope, particularly one attached to the bottom corner of a sail (it actually comes from an Old English term for the corner of a sail). The sheets were vital, since they trimmed the sail to the wind. If they ran loose, the sail would flutter about in the wind and the ship would wallow off its course out of control.
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