Worry down drinks

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Anonymous

#306996 Sun, 24 Dec 06 10:37 PM

Have you ever met this
"worry down one or two drinks"
with the meaning of "drink/swallow"?

Should be AmE.

Thanks.

Anonymous

Philip

#307025 Mon, 25 Dec 06 01:17 AM

Anonymous wrote:
Have you ever met this
"worry down one or two drinks"
with the meaning of "drink/swallow"?

Should be AmE.

Thanks.

I've never come across it. Might it mean to "drown one's sorrows', 'drink one's worries away"?

Philip

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Grammar Geek

#307033 Mon, 25 Dec 06 02:11 AM

And from the othere side of the U.S., I can say I've not heard it either.

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

Feebs11

#307524 Wed, 27 Dec 06 12:47 AM

To me this phrase would imply the subject was having problems with drinking, and is having a struggle to swallow.

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nona the brit

#307644 Wed, 27 Dec 06 11:44 AM

I haen't heard it but when you 'worry' with something you are sort of fiddling with it, so I'd assume they drank very slowly and nervously, fiddling with the glass, for some reason.

nona the brit

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The name says it all.

Philip

#307783 Wed, 27 Dec 06 04:42 PM

Nona The Brit wrote:
I haen't heard it but when you 'worry' with something you are sort of fiddling with it, so I'd assume they drank very slowly and nervously, fiddling with the glass, for some reason.

With this, I can picture a viable scene. The man is waiting in a bar, expecting to meet up with a woman he met only a week before. It's their first date, and he isn't sure she's going to show up. Or, you could switch the gender of the characters.

Philip

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nona the brit

#307788 Wed, 27 Dec 06 04:47 PM

Yes, that's the sort of thing I would imagine. Or if you were waiting to go and collect some results from hospital tests.

nona the brit