单词 | to drink it |
释义 | > as lemmasto drink it a. To take alcoholic or intoxicating liquor, either convivially, or to gratify appetite; to indulge therein to excess; to tipple; spec. to be a habitual drunkard. (The sense is often indicated contextually by adverbs or phrases such as about, deep, hard, heavily, like a fish.) Also to drink it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink habitually drinka1275 to blow (in) a bowlc1500 use1600 a1275 Prov. Ælfred 476 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 131 Werse þe swo on euen yuele haued y-dronken. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 51 Ich ne ssel by an eyse al-huet ich habbe ydronke. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 132/1 Drynkyn a-bowte..epoto. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 130 He dranke so moche that he was veray dronke. 1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 254 The feind me ryfe, Gif I do ocht bot drynk and swyfe. 1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley iv. sig. G4 I haue bin drinking hard. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 242 They sit long and drink soundly. 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iv. sig. H2v Give me the bottle, I can drink like a Fish now, like an Elephant. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i. 14 Drink like a Fish, and swear like a Devil. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 19 His son..Who drinks, whores, fights, and in a duel dies. 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 24 Not forgetting I was not at Home, and consequently drinking like a Fish. 1837 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 4 492 I'll coach it, and dine it, and drink it till morn. 1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 56 He's the..drinker that verily ‘drinks like a fish!’ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Lett. 28 July We went to a barrack room, where we drank about. 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot vii A woman who drank like a fish and swore like a trooper. 1897 N.E.D. at Drink Mod. Poor woman! her husband drinks. < as lemmas |
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