Take+a+drink
81take the drop — to be killed by hanging From the scaffold: He s as good as taken the drop already. (G. Greene, 1934) To take a drop means regularly to drink alcohol …
82take the edge off — lessen, weaken, soften We had a drink of hot chocolate in order to take the edge off the cold weather …
83take the pledge — sign/take the pledge humorous to decide that you are never going to drink alcohol again. Why are you drinking Coke? Have you signed the pledge or something? …
84take off — 1. Remove, divest one s self of. 2. Remove, take away, carry off. 3. Cut off. 4. Withdraw, withhold. 5. Destroy, kill. 6. Swallow, drink. 7. Imitate, personate, mimic. 8. Copy, reproduce. 9 …
85take to the bottle — hit the bottle/take to the bottle/informal phrase to start drinking a lot of alcohol He hit the bottle after losing his job. Thesaurus: to drink alcohol, or to be drunksynonym Main entry: bottle …
86(take your) hands off (something) — (get/take your) ˌhands ˈoff (sth/sb) idiom (informal) used to tell sb not to touch sth/sb • Get your hands off my wife! • Hey, hands off! That s my drink! …
87(take your) hands off (somebody) — (get/take your) ˌhands ˈoff (sth/sb) idiom (informal) used to tell sb not to touch sth/sb • Get your hands off my wife! • Hey, hands off! That s my drink! …
88take the pledge — sign/take the ˈpledge idiom (old fashioned) to make a promise never to drink alcohol Main entry: ↑pledgeidiom …
89take a drop — {v. phr.} 1. To indulge in alcoholic drinks. * /Aunt Liz doesn t really drink; she just takes a drop every now and then./ 2. To lose value; decrease in price. * /Stocks took a big drop yesterday due to the international crisis./ …
90take a drop — {v. phr.} 1. To indulge in alcoholic drinks. * /Aunt Liz doesn t really drink; she just takes a drop every now and then./ 2. To lose value; decrease in price. * /Stocks took a big drop yesterday due to the international crisis./ …
