Words and Meanings - "Hair of the Dog"

So to start things off our first saying is "Hair of the Dog". I have always wandered what this phrase means.

HAIR OF THE DOG THAT BIT YOU - "A deliberate second experience (usually alcoholic) with something that was a bad first experience. It is ancient folk wisdom that like cures like, so ancient that the idea was expressed in Latin: Similia similibus curantur. A specific remedy for a dog bite was hair from the dog that bit you; the hair (often burned first) was applied to the wound." From "The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).

Well now we know.