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Like a fine whiskey
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wales
Posts: 66,641
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Like a fine whiskey
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wales
Posts: 66,641
Favourites (more):
BB2024: Sarah CBB2024: Marisha Wallace
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Drink like a fish
Meaning
Drink heavily, especially of alcoholic drink.
Origin
Clearly an allusion to fishes' close association with water and their continuous open-mouthed taking in of water to obtain oxygen. The phrase is known since 1640 and appears in Fletcher and Shirley's The night-walker, or the little theife, from that date:
"Give me the bottle, I can drink like a Fish now, like an Elephant."
'Drink like an elephant' didn't catch on. There is a more recent potential boost to use 'drink like a fish' - at least for Californian Valley girls. In January 2005 a press release for the Dalian Fisherman's Song Maritime Biological Brewery in China, said that they had developed a fermentation process to make fish into wine. So now, you can 'drink, like, a fish'.
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/123000.html
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