take to drink
old-fashionedto start drinking alcohol often, sometimes because of a personal problem:
He took to drink after his wife left him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drinking alcohol
- after hours idiom
- bender
- binge drinking
- booze
- booze-up
- drinking
- drinking-up time
- drown your sorrows idiom
- Dutch courage
- happy hour
- hatch
- mud
- on the booze idiom
- out of hours idiom
- piss-up
- poison
- pub crawl
- put sth back
- shout
- spike
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