the bottle
Problem drinking habit
Alcoholic drink as an abstraction, especially when discussing habitual drinking or addiction: He turned to the bottle after his divorce, She's been off the bottle for three years.
The phrase treats alcohol as a single consuming force rather than distinguishing between types of drinks.
To hit the bottle is to drink heavily.
- corkTree bark bottle seal
- capCovering for top
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- glassTransparent solid from sand
- plasticCapable of being molded
message · nipple · genie · prohibition · storage · recycling · pouring · baby · celebration · vial · pollution · flask · jug · shipwreck · aluminum · intoxication · refill · label
- metonymsWall Street, Hollywood, the Kremlin, Capitol Hill, Downing Street
addiction/sobriety
the bottlesobriety
Unimpaired mental state
recovery · abstinence · teetotalism · clean living · twelve steps
bottle, bottled, bottles, bottling, bottleneck, bottler, bottleful, bottlefuls, bottlers