The deeds I have yet to do, the entire plan for saving the fatherland, along with a remedy for a hangover, I bequeath to the heroes of the Baden chamber.
Heinrich Heine: Testament
Source: Lexicon of Beautiful Words
Meaning colloquially: unpleasant physical after-effects of excessive alcohol consumption (accompanied by despondency and feelings of remorse)
Despair, deep disappointment after a failure, a (self-inflicted) defeat; dejection, melancholy
[less common] feeling of remorse, self-reproach after a transgression
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