The Best Hair On The Dog That Bit Me Ideas. Web this expression, already a proverb in john heywood's 1546 compendium, is based on the ancient folk treatment for dogbite of putting a burnt hair of the dog on the wound. That derivation is from the medieval.
A drink of liquor taken when one has a hangover; Web the shining (1980) clip with quote hair of the dog that bit me. Web the meaning is quite literal.
