drown one's sorrows
Booze away pain
To drown one's sorrows is to drink alcohol as a way of forgetting problems or escaping emotional pain: After the breakup, he spent the weekend drowning his sorrows at the bar.
The image suggests submerging grief beneath waves of liquor.
The phrase acknowledges this as a coping mechanism rather than a solution.
- drinkConsumable liquid
- hit the bottleDrink to excess
- whiskeyOak-aged grain spirit
- bottoms upDrinking toast command
- barDrinking establishment
dive bar · last call · heartbreak · grief · bottle · intoxication · liquid courage · numb · drinking alone · lonely · tavern · beer · wallow · forget · sadness · binge · melancholy · despair
coping strategy
drown one's sorrowsdeal with it
Dismissive command to accept hardship
talk it out · problem-solve · get help · meditate · journal
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