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hard drinking

noun as in Dutch courage

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On the one hand, Wilfred is a pot-smoking, hard-drinking, Matt Damon-loving, mongrel dog.

To Chicago he was still two-fisted, hard-drinking, cantankerous.

It was the winter of 2010 and I warmed myself up by slipping back into hard drinking each night.

He accepted the universal caricature of himself as the hard-drinking “contrarian” and reveled in his capacity to bully all comers.

His performance as hard-drinking, hard-living Bad Blake in Crazy Heart has had Hollywood abuzz for months now.

Aconite … night boat … sea sick … emetics … exhaustion … stimulants … hard drinking … spontaneous combustion … animal charcoal.

Their faces were flushed as if by hard drinking, and their pimpled noses resembled huge red barnacles.

The latter looked up at the artist reproachfully and said, "You see, my man, what comes of hard drinking."

Mr. Walter Riddel, the host, was wont to press his guests to deeper potations than were usual even in those hard-drinking days.

Called him a hard fighting, hard drinking, and hard swearing Christian.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard drinking, such as: liquid courage, pot-valiance, pot-valiancy, pot-valor, alcohol, and bold front.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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