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Consume a drink slowly, especially in order to conserve it. For example, He nursed one drink for the whole evening . This idiom alludes to holding a glass very carefully, as one might a child. [c. 1940]Advertisement
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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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