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"had one too many" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone has consumed an excessive amount of alcoholic drinks and is now inebriated. For example, "After a long night of drinking, Joe had one too many drinks and was unable to drive home."
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Little kids and adults who were complete strangers would randomly mock me and say I had one too many spots on my face.
If we had chosen our current life-on-the-rocks, we clearly had had one too many.
About this point she fell on her ass but everyone assumed that she'd had one too many so left her in a seat to cool off.
No, I haven't had one too many toffee vodkas.
But I'd had one too many by then and I was really fucking out of it".
"I'd had one too many saketinis and there was a twinkle in Philip's eye.
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ABC did not adequately follow the psychodrama of Ian Woosnam, who was penalized two shots on the second hole for having one too many clubs in his bag.
(We learned this the hard way after having one too many cheap suitcases fall apart on us).
Obviously that's what happens if you have one too many.
As the sun sets, feel free to have one too many drinks in the lobby bar.
He would have one too many or several too many or a dozen too many and wind people up".
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