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drown one's sorrows
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Idioms and Phrases
Drink liquor to escape one's unhappiness. For example, After the divorce, she took to drowning her sorrows at the local bar . The notion of drowning in drink dates from the late 1300s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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