favorite drinking hole
- noun
- Informal
:
bar favorito
- Every Friday, we meet at our favorite drinking hole after work.
Examples
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She suggested we find a new favorite drinking hole with better music.
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Let's meet at my favorite drinking hole this weekend.
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The old tavern became their favorite drinking hole during college.
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The favorite drinking holes in town are always crowded on Fridays.
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After work, we often gather at our favorite drinking hole to relax and catch up.
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The locals all agree that Joe's Tavern is the best favorite drinking hole in town.
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Every Friday night, the group meets at their favorite drinking hole for live music and drinks.
Synonyms
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4.3
A place a person or group visits often
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3.4
A bar or pub where people meet to drink and talk
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3.4
A bar where local people meet to drink and talk
A relaxed bar or pub where people meet to drink alcohol
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is largely compositionally derivable: 'favorite' (preferred) + 'drinking' (consumption of alcohol) + 'hole' (colloquially ‘place’ or ‘dive’) yields 'a preferred place to drink.' However, the use of 'hole' to mean a bar/dive is a metaphorical extension that some B1 learners may not know, so the relation is only partially predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The noun favorite drinking hole may come from the simple image of animals gathering at a safe drinking hole, a 'watering hole' where they drink. That's why it now means a person's favorite 'bar' or regular 'place' to go for drinks.