seeing pink elephants การใช้

I grabbed my fish and got out of there before he got to seeing pink elephants.
Maybe coincidentally or perhaps a remnant of the 19th century elephant idiom, the 20th century euphemism " seeing pink elephants " is a term to denote drunk hallucinations.
"There's a snake in my boot ! " is an old reference to alcoholic hallucination that was commonly used during the Wild West era; the concept is akin to seeing pink elephants, a later euphemism from the early 20th century.
But we have good reason to believe that a musical experience is not a purely private thing, like seeing pink elephants, and that reporting about such an experience need not be subjective in the sense of it being a mere matter of opinion ".