hit the bottle

Example Sentences

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But stress prompted him to hit the bottle.

From Washington Times

“Your mother, too. I mean, I saw her commencement speech and she’s saying, you know, she hit the bottle.”

From Washington Times

“I always assumed,” Grant tells me, “that my character was embroiled in a horrible sex scandal. And after a few years in prison he hit the bottle pretty hard. Yes – Martine abandoned him. She turned out to be very shallow.”

From The Guardian

“And then the Daily Mail put out a headline that said, ‘Arnett hit the bottle!’

From Los Angeles Times

And she’s down to hit the bottle, no matter what the occasion.

From Time