| 单词 | to drink more than one can carry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drink more than one can carry P6. to drink more than one can carry and variants: to drink more alcohol than one can withstand without becoming inebriated. ΚΠ 1615 H. Parrot Mastiue sig. I2v Such Husbands as are worldly wise, Will spend no more then nature shall suffise. As not to drinke more then their braynes can carie, For feare their iudgements from their wits should varie. 1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. L Hereupon they use to characterize a Dutchman to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxvii. 339 A sailor having drank more new rum than he could carry. 1867 Our Boys & Girls 21 Dec. 698/2 He was no longer in condition even to drink for both of us. He had already taken more than he could carry. 1947 ‘P. Wentworth’ Wicked Uncle (1996) xxx. 221 It's my opinion he'd had a good bit more to drink than he could carry. 2009 @BillyD81 12 July in twitter.com (accessed 26 Nov.) I drank more than I could carry last night. < as lemmas |
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