hard drinking

There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012

Levinge's and Castlereagh's hard drinking and gloomy aspect at mess were popularly attributed to the witchery of the St. Aubyn.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

There were a good many guests in the house at times, almost invariably men, but none of the wild revels of the old days, very little hard drinking, and no play to speak of.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

Sixty years had written their story of hard work at sea, and hard drinking on shore, on the veteran's grim and wrinkled face.

From No Name by Wilkie Collins

Be it observed also that the hard fighting, hard drinking, boastful hero of Nieblung fame used a "spur hund," just as his representative of Kentucky or Tennessee used a track hound a thousand years later.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt