单词 | to drink someone under the table |
释义 | > as lemmasto drink (also put, see, etc.) someone under the table a. colloquial. Drunk to the point of insensibility, esp. in to drink (also put, see, etc.) someone under the table: to outdrink someone; to drink with someone until that person is drunk to the point of insensibility. Now frequently in extended use in to —— someone under the table: to outdo or outlast in or overcome with the specified form of activity. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk > make very or insensibly drunk to drink (also put, see, etc.) someone under the tablea1636 locus1829 to sew up1829 to drink under the table1897 mickey-finn1957 a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) iv. 532 They get Beer of extraordinary strength, and..make matches who shall drink each other drunk under the Table. a1653 H. Binning Heart-humiliation (1676) vi. 81 Some boast of drinking, and being able to drink others under the Table. 1751 T. Carlyle in E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. (1864) iii Being a five-bottle man, he could lay them all under the table. 1845 J. F. Cooper Satanstoe I. xii. 184 Guert was no drunkard, far from it; he could only drink all near him under the table, and remain firm in his chair himself. 1921 W. S. Maugham Trembling of Leaf 28 Walker had always been a heavy drinker, he was proud of his capacity to see men half his age under the table. 1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. v. 95 He was far from sober, or would have been if two tumblers of brandy had been enough to put him under the table. 1953 H. Clevely Public Enemy 137 This time, if he met Tilly, she wouldn't drink him under the table. 1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You (1962) 240 You mustn't talk Julian's young friend under the table. 1985 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 197/1 Hurray: and last one under the table gets 10,000 florins from the loser. 1995 J. Barclay Paras over the Barras (2002) vii. 129 He'd drink anythin [sic], and did. He could drink anybody under the table. 2004 Voice 22 Mar. (24 Seven section) 10/3 But social dancing—you give me a little shandy, I'll get high as a kite and I will dance you under the table! < as lemmas |
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