hold one's liquor
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (AU) (file)
Verb[edit]
hold one's liquor (third-person singular simple present holds one's liquor, present participle holding one's liquor, simple past and past participle held one's liquor)
- (idiomatic) To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after consuming a significant amount of alcohol.
- Synonyms: hold one's alcohol, hold one's drink
- 1927, “Alcoholic Rats and Heredity”, in Popular Science, volume 110, number 6, page 39:
- Just because a person is descended from hard-drinking ancestors is no sign that he can "hold his liquor" better than others.
- 1987 September 14, Patricia Morrisroe, “The Life and Death of Sandy Marsh”, in New York Magazine, volume 20, number 36, page 49:
- Sandy Marsh didn't hold her liquor particularly well; she could get tipsy on two glasses of red wine.
- 2002, Emma Holly, Beyond Seduction[1], →ISBN, page 87:
- When I first came to London and fell in with Sebastian and Evangeline, neither could hold their liquor, nor judge which glass should be their last.
Translations[edit]
to have a considerable tolerance to alcohol
|