drink someone under the table
Superior alcohol tolerance
To drink someone under the table is to outlast them in a drinking session—to keep going while they collapse or pass out.
The phrase implies competitive drinking where one person's superior tolerance wins the day: He could drink anyone under the table and still drive home.
The "table" is where drinkers sit until one ends up beneath it.
- hollow legCapacity to consume endlessly
- hold your liquorDrink without showing intoxication
- outdrinkConsume more alcohol than
- outlastPersist longer than another
- last man standingFinal competitor remaining
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drink someone under the tablecry uncle
Concede defeat aloud
tap out · throw in the towel · admit defeat · wave the white flag · call it quits
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