drank someone under the table
Won drinking contest
To drink someone under the table is to consume more alcohol than they can handle while remaining functional yourself.
The phrase typically describes a drinking contest or comparison where one person outlasts another, who becomes too intoxicated to continue.
She drank him under the table and was still ordering rounds.
The expression plays on the image of a defeated drinker literally sliding under the table, unconscious or incapacitated.
- beerFermented grain drink
- hold one's liquorWithstand intoxication's effects
- intoxicationSubstance-induced mental impairment
- challengeTest of ability
- drunk as a skunkExtremely intoxicated, rhymingly
hangover · rivalry · bottoms up · beer pong · pub games · dominance · last man standing · three sheets to the wind · blackout · outdrink · whiskey · bragging rights · party games · peer pressure · dares · liquid courage · impaired judgment · tipsy
drank someone under the tabletapped out
Exhausted of funds
threw in the towel · cried uncle · blacked out · gave up · surrendered
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