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DRINK LIKE A FISH

Specialty Definition: DRINK LIKE A FISH

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Literature

Drink like a Fish (To). To drink abundantly. Many fish swim with their mouths open. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: DRINK LIKE A FISH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Drunkenness

Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DRINK LIKE A FISH

Language Translations for "DRINK LIKE A FISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

pít jako duha (booze). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mint a gödény (to drink like a fish), iszik mint a kefekötő (to drink like a fish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inkdray ikelay aay ishfay

   

Romanian

  

bea vârtos (booze, drink deep, drink hard, drink heavily). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRINK LIKE A FISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-i-i-i-k-k-l-n-r-s"

-4 letters: kilderkins.

-5 letters: airfields, filariids, finalised, hairlines, kilderkin, sharklike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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