in the drink
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9.9
- idiom
- Archaic
:
ebrio
- After a long day at work, he loves to unwind and relax in the drink with his friends.
Examples
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At the announcement of one of his new companions, "Stuben's gone in the drink again, and this 'un fished him out," there was a collective murmur of excitement, followed by a flurry of movement.
Fiction book (2001) -
It sounds like your buddy needs a DM or instructor and lots of time in the drink.
Blog text (3) -
Otherwise you might have an accident, and wind up in the drink.
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Like we're thrown in the drink
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I pitched that in the drink.
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She'd probably end up in the drink again that way.
Fiction book (1995) -
Safest place for this bloke is back in the drink.
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She finds herself in the drink more often since she moved to the city.
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At the party, everyone was having fun, but he was really in the drink by the end of the night.
Synonyms
56
3.0
Feeling a very strong emotion that makes you excited or unable to think clearly
46
5.8
Not able to do daily tasks safely because of alcohol or drugs
44
4.2
Unable to control your actions because of alcohol or drugs
18
4.8
A little drunk after drinking a small amount of alcohol
8
6.5
To be very drunk after drinking too much alcohol
4
8.9
Too much alcohol makes a person very unsteady and unable to think clearly
3
7.9
So affected by alcohol that you are not aware of what you do or where you are
1
9.9
So drunk that you cannot walk or speak clearly
1
8.4
Very drunk from drinking alcohol
Drunk after drinking too much alcohol
Very drunk or affected by drugs and unable to think clearly
Very drunk after drinking a lot of alcohol
Very drunk after drinking a lot of alcohol
Very drunk after drinking too much
Being very drunk after drinking a lot of alcohol
To say someone is very drunk or high on drugs in an informal rude way
Feeling very drunk and acting foolishly
Antonyms
How Drunk
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning depends on a non-literal sense of 'drink' (drunkenness) combined with the locative frame 'in the N' to mean 'in a state of N', so a learner who knows that noun sense could plausibly infer the meaning. However, the use of the definite article and this particular colloquial collocation is somewhat idiomatic and not fully predictable for an average B1 learner, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
In the drink may come from a simple picture: someone drinking so much they seem to be standing in a sea of alcohol. One popular story says people started calling that state in the drink, which is why it now means 'drunk'.