hitting the sauce
Imbibing too much
Hitting the sauce means drinking alcohol, usually implying heavy or habitual drinking.
The phrase carries a casual, slightly disapproving tone—someone who's been hitting the sauce has probably had more than they should.
Sauce here is slang for liquor, especially hard liquor.
- boozeInformal term for spirits
- beerFermented grain drink
- liquid lunchDrinking replacing midday food
- binge drinkingRapid excessive alcohol consumption
- three sheets to the windExtremely inebriated state
escapism · hangover · morning after · hammered · wine · drunkard · liquid courage · alcoholism · hair of the dog · whiskey · intoxication · nightcap · last call · addiction · loneliness · tipsy · beer goggles · vodka
sobriety/abstinence
hitting the saucestaying sober
on the wagon · teetotaling · abstaining · dry · going dry
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