drink like a fish

English

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Verb

drink like a fish (third-person singular simple present drinks like a fish, present participle drinking like a fish, simple past drank like a fish, past participle drunk like a fish)

1. (simile) To drink (especially alcohol) heavily and in excess.

Translations

drink alcohol heavily

• Dutch: drinken als een tempelier
• Esperanto: drinki kiel funelo
• Finnish: juoda kuin sieni
• French: boire comme un trou (fr)
• German: saufen wie ein Loch (de)
• Hungarian: iszik, mint a kefekötő, iszik, mint a gödény
• Italian: bere come una spugna
• Japanese: 鯨飲する (ja) (geiin suru)
• Macedonian: пие како смок (pie kako smok, literally “drink like a whipsnake”)
• Polish: pić jak szewc (pl)
• Portuguese: beber como uma esponja
• Russian: пить как ло́шадь impf (pitʹ kak lóšadʹ) (drink like a horse), пить как гу́бка impf (pitʹ kak gúbka) (drink like a sponge), пья́нствовать (ru) impf (pʹjánstvovatʹ), буха́ть (ru) impf (buxátʹ)
• Spanish: beber como una esponja
• Swedish: dricka som en svamp (literally “drink like a sponge”)