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单词 to drink it
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to 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.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink habitually
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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.
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