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hit the bottle
verb
To drink alcohol steadily and in excess, particularly in response to a setback.
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Exact(42)
David hit the bottle.
You hit the bottle.
So, not much time to hit the bottle, then.
With Ronnie in jail, her husband hit the bottle.
Like his parents he often hit the bottle, but he had no criminal record.
As promised, it's time to hit the bottle in this month's Reading group.
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Meanwhile, Leo and his broken heart are hitting the bottle.
But she's not the only actress to be hitting the bottle... of peroxide.
Chinese alcoholism statistics are hard to come by, but Harbin hits the bottle hard.
We preferred hitting the bottle back on our own luxuriously solitary, eco-conscious island.
Unsurprisingly, he's having qualms and hitting the bottle, while his marriage unravels.
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