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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drink
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drink of water
▪ He asked for a drink of water.
a drinking companion (=someone you go out with to drink alcohol)
▪ George was out again with his drinking companions.
a drinks cupboardBritish English (= for drinks, especially alcoholic ones)
▪ He went to the drinks cupboard and poured a whisky.
a drunken/drunk driver (=who has drunk too much alcohol)
▪ Her husband was killed by a drunken driver.
binge drinking
▪ Binge drinking is an increasing problem among young people.
Could I interest you in a drink/dessert etc? (=used as a polite way of offering someone a drink etc)
dead drunk
▪ He came home dead drunk in the middle of the night.
drink coffee
▪ I don’t often drink coffee.
drink milk
▪ Drinking milk keeps your bones strong.
drink tea
▪ Susan sank into her chair and drank her tea.
drinking chocolate
drinking fountain
drinking water (=water that you can drink safely)
▪ There is no source of drinking water on the island.
drinking water
drinks machine
drinks party
drink/smoke heavily
▪ Paul was drinking heavily by then.
drive sb to drink (=make someone so annoyed or upset that they depend on alcohol)
▪ His problems had almost driven him to drink.
drunk and disorderly
▪ Bell denied being drunk and disorderly.
drunk driving
drunk tank
eat/drink soup
▪ We chatted as we ate our spinach soup.
eating/drinking habits (=the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly)
▪ You need to change your eating habits.
excessive drinking (=drinking too much alcohol)
▪ Your excessive drinking has to stop.
fixed...drink
▪ Terry fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony.
good to eat/drink
▪ They have to learn which wild foods are good to eat.
Heavy drinking
Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby.
hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc
▪ She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
invite...for a drink
▪ Why don’t you invite her for a drink at the club one evening?
isotonic drink
owe sb a drink/letter etc
▪ I owe Shaun a letter; I must write soon.
pour...drink
▪ Why don’t you pour yourself another drink?
safe to use/drink/eat etc
▪ The water is treated to make it safe to drink.
soft drink
turn to drink/crime/drugs etc
▪ addicts who turn to crime to finance their habit
under the influence of alcohol/drink/drugs etc
▪ He was accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
▪ I felt them, if I was in the same position, I would probably drink heavily as well.
▪ They drank heavily and talked loudly.
▪ Although I used to enjoy a drink, I started really drinking heavily after he died.
▪ They report he appears to be drinking heavily, and occasionally shows up plastered at the office.
▪ Our sole companion had been drinking heavily, with inevitable consequences.
▪ What was becoming evident was that he was drinking heavily.
▪ He drinks heavily the night before his death and retires to his bed chamber.
▪ It was just too painful, for as she later told George Putnam, Bill Stultz spent the day drinking heavily.
never
▪ And what really annoyed me was that he never drank and certainly didn't go a bundle on gambling.
▪ They are never drunk one day and good for nothing the next.
▪ I never drink anything out of a can and hardly ever eat anything tinned, either.
▪ He never drank alcohol, coffee or tea, since he deplored the consumption of substances that have mind-altering qualities.
▪ Len wasn't there, and the man who was would never drink a cup of tea again.
▪ There were followers of Dionysus who never drank wine at all.
▪ Well, she'd certainly learned one lesson from last night - she'd never drink again!
▪ Her beauty and her talk still attracted anyone she wished for company, and she never drank when she painted.
■ NOUN
alcohol
▪ I also smoke, but at least I don't drink much alcohol.
▪ The President, who drinks very little alcohol, sipped his favorite cocktail, a weak orange blossom.
▪ Fred craves meat, smokes but doesn't drink alcohol.
▪ The volunteers who drank alcohol contracted fewer colds during the study period than did the volunteers who drank no alcohol.
▪ He never drank alcohol, coffee or tea, since he deplored the consumption of substances that have mind-altering qualities.
▪ It may be added, of course, that most of those who drink alcohol do not commit offences of violence thereafter.
▪ There are also mice that become energized and active after drinking alcohol, and their opposites that become lethargic.
beer
▪ Stalin sat at the table, drinking a can of beer.
▪ Quit your whining and drink another beer.
▪ Roberts told the police that he had drunk five cans of beer.
▪ We built a great fire in the outdoor fireplace and roasted the steak, drank the beer, and talked.
▪ Jed could see them from the car, drinking beers and swapping jokes.
▪ During the season, Favre appealed to the league, requesting the chance to drink a beer or two after a game.
bottle
▪ It was not unusual for him, unaided, to drink two bottles of wine in as many hours.
▪ Meanwhile, he was passed out in his room, having drunk an entire bottle of Scotch alone.
▪ They ate out there too and drank one of the bottles of wine they had brought.
▪ Into the picture walked a man drinking from a quart bottle of beer partially concealed in a brown paper bag.
▪ Tam drank, lowered the bottle, and examined the contents.
▪ She drank from bottles hidden in the bathroom, in the closet, or under the bed.
▪ They drank the whole bottle in perfect accord.
▪ She was sitting at her desk in the living room, fiddling with a pencil and drinking from a bottle of beer.
coffee
▪ I no longer drank black coffee nor smoked, so I could only chew my almonds and sip my herb tea.
▪ A man sitting in his undershirt, drinking coffee, said yes, they had a bed.
▪ We drank evening coffee with them.
▪ In stern parental terms he told Uncle Allen he would ruin his health by drinking coffee.
▪ They sat there drinking coffee and looking at the Glovers with detached interest.
▪ I ate my roll and drank my coffee while all sorts of anxieties roiled in my brain.
▪ Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion.
▪ She drank the burned coffee as she waited for the Percodan to take.
cup
▪ The prison doctor refused unless she agreed to drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of bread and butter.
▪ Peter routinely drank four or five cups of coffee before a round and he flew around the course.
▪ She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china.
▪ We stretch out our tired legs and drink cups of tea we have brought up from the pantry.
▪ Out of interest I drank a cup of coffee and watched the pulse zoom up.
▪ She was just drinking a second cup of coffee when Julius walked through the doorway.
▪ It is said that pregnant women were assured a smooth delivery when they drank from his cup, hence his patronage.
glass
▪ Adam decided to hold back Miranda's bombshell until later, after Elinor drank her evening glass of champagne.
▪ The lowest death rate was among people who drank 2-5 glasses of beer a day.
▪ After I drank my second glass of blackberry wine, I was no longer angry at Polly for coming home.
▪ We drank claret out of large glasses.
▪ Of course, if you drink two glasses, double the number of units shown.
▪ Some nights she drank three glasses of wine.
▪ Apart from the single ecstasy dose, she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night.
health
▪ They filed up the hill in the moonlight and danced solemnly around it, then kneeled and drank to their eternal health.
lot
▪ They didn't know that if you have ecstasy you should drink a lot of water because of the risk of heat exhaustion.
▪ I drink a lot of coffee in the morning.
▪ He had been drinking a lot of beer, but he says he heard cries.
▪ Me and Albert, we used to like to drink a lot.
▪ He drank a lot of milk.
▪ I started drinking a lot more water and I ate more fish.
▪ She drank a lot of wine for a small girl, and enjoyed it.
▪ I drink a lot of water or else I would snack a lot.
milk
▪ They were in the kitchen, where Hannele had been drinking milk when he returned.
▪ It may be black or green tea flavoured with jasmine flowers, is very fragrant and is always drunk without milk.
▪ They drank powdered milk instead of fresh.
▪ I was frequently sick through being forced to drink rancid milk that had been left standing in the playground for hours.
▪ It was with great difficulty that they were able to coax him to drink a little milk.
▪ This is hardly surprising, bearing in mind that no other adult animal naturally drinks milk.
▪ I tell my son to drink his milk.
pint
▪ Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.
▪ Petersburg Times, drank a pint of gin a day.
▪ Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.
▪ He said he had drunk eight to 10 pints of lager and some vodka and tonic, the court was told.
▪ On a Friday night he would drink a pint of lemonade at the bar.
▪ One member of the team must drink a pint of beer at the start and consume another four on the way.
▪ The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer.
▪ Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979.
tea
▪ Well, I've drunk my tea now.
▪ He always drank tea in the morning, and she, suffering from an ulcer, always drank hot chocolate.
▪ We sat by the dining-room fire drinking our hot tea.
▪ We stretch out our tired legs and drink cups of tea we have brought up from the pantry.
▪ She went downstairs, and sat cold and lonely in the kitchen, drinking hot tea.
▪ Nearly everyone, however, even on casual Friday, is drinking soda or tea during the lunch hour.
▪ After dinner he sat down beside the fire and drank his tea.
▪ These new findings about caffeine explain some of the ordinary experiences of drinking coffee, tea, and other caffeinated beverages.
water
▪ They gave him fortified water to drink.
▪ He could sail this water drunk and blindfolded.
▪ For instance, Oggie puts one or both feet into his water bowl when he drinks.
▪ But indeed he had used all his water, including his drinking supply, and had no food.
▪ The ant had brought him water and as he drank the ant spoke of Urizen and Lucifer.
▪ Wine was carefully mixed with water, because drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric.
▪ And taking a bath in very hot water after you drink it.
wine
▪ Next evening, I was drinking his wine.
▪ I drink red wine and heat a pita bread on the gas burner and wrap it around alfalfa sprouts or green linguine.
▪ Take a little tour in our beautiful country - sit in the sunshine - drink some wine.
▪ There was nobody telling us what to do; nobody sitting around drinking palm wine and demanding dinner.
▪ She'd drunk plenty of wine before, for heaven's sake.
▪ The old man was drinking wine.
▪ As we drank our wine, Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood.
▪ To see a starvIng man eating lobster salad and drinking Rhine wine, barefooted and in tatters, was curious.
■ VERB
eat
▪ How can we eat and drink when our poor brothers starve?
▪ I ate my roll and drank my coffee while all sorts of anxieties roiled in my brain.
▪ They all ate and drank, and celebrated the end of the sheep-shearing by singing their favourite songs.
▪ We don't know how he died, but presumably it was something he ate or drank.
▪ The others we decided to eat and drink ourselves.
▪ If that were so, no one would ever eat or drink to excess.
▪ The hostesses keep a record of what they eat, and the drinking is easily accounted for.
like
▪ Mum is a fire sign and water just puts her right out-she doesn't even like to drink it.
▪ Me and Albert, we used to like to drink a lot.
▪ World champions took matches much less frequently and in between Lynch liked to drink.
▪ Don Casey likes to drink espresso and talk politics.
▪ Nowadays he liked nothing better than drinking rather too much with journalists, and chewing the fat.
▪ Florence liked to drink and laugh as Margarett did, and eventually the two became lovers.
▪ He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee, declining his offer of liqueurs.
▪ What would you like to drink?
sit
▪ They sat there drinking coffee and looking at the Glovers with detached interest.
▪ For the most part, its patrons sat silently and drank darkly.
▪ Dave Henderson, general manager of both magazines explained: People think we sit around drinking Jack Daniel's all day.
▪ We sat there and drank the wine.
▪ Amanda came back wearing a tee-shirt and black leggings, made herself a large gin and tonic, sat down and drank.
▪ He sat drinking, trying to writhe free.
▪ We sat and drank before a smouldering fire while he conversed.
▪ The three of us sat down to drink our coffee.
smoke
▪ None of the New College group are chain-#smoking or drinking coffee, but there is still an authentic atmosphere.
▪ Similarly, parents instruct their children not to smoke or drink, yet the parents may engage in those activities themselves.
▪ During the test periods subjects were instructed not to smoke or eat anything but drank water ad libitum.
▪ I lived on fast food, I smoked, I drank, I did drugs.
▪ He smokes and he drinks a lot of beer.
▪ Subjects who normally smoked or drank were allowed to continue doing so throughout their quarantine.
▪ Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed.
▪ Men also smoke more, drink more, and take more life-threatening risks.
start
▪ And you're not to start drinking that nasty whisky again.
▪ One month after we returned to New York, he started drinking again.
▪ Although I used to enjoy a drink, I started really drinking heavily after he died.
▪ Once the formalities were dispensed with, it was time to start drinking.
▪ At the very least, she started drinking then.
▪ About a year before, I start drinking a little at parties.
▪ Then I really started drinking heavily.
▪ Then, I start drinking too much at parties.
stop
▪ Some nights he'd hit the vodka bottle and I'd be crying and begging him to stop drinking.
▪ I may not stop for food or drink.
▪ The only way you can stop yourself drinking it is to lecture the world about how bad it is.
▪ He had even tried to stop drinking a couple of times for me, though of course it never lasted.
▪ If you find it difficult to stop drinking altogether, try to cut down as much as possible.
▪ Customers stopping by to drink coffee and check on the markets screen found themselves locked out.
▪ Granny-Liz would always stop fanning herself to drink up a glass of iced water.
▪ Another related a story about a friend who got pregnant unintentionally while drunk and only then was compelled to stop drinking.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be meat and drink to sb
▪ These figures are heroes to conservatives for their espousal of policies that are meat and drink to the right, especially abortion.
being drunk and disorderly
▪ Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.
▪ Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.
▪ Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.
blind drunk
drink/laugh/scare etc yourself silly
▪ Well, I laughed myself silly.
drinking horn/powder horn etc
drunk on/with sth
▪ We were drunk with freedom.
eat/drink your fill
▪ Here the nomads water their flocks and the horses drink their fill when the tourists have dismounted.
▪ I stopped at some blackberry bushes and ate my fill.
▪ Menelaus gave them a courteous greeting and bade them eat their fill.
▪ There was still time for Frankie, if he was very quiet and very careful, to eat his fill.
▪ Why were those high-fibre eaters keeping slim even when they were eating their fill?
farewell party/dinner/drink etc
▪ A celebration, a farewell party.
▪ Kate's local women's group gives her a farewell party of disapproval veiled by loyalty.
▪ On 8 August 1952 he and Joan gave a farewell party to Cambridge friends.
▪ She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave.
▪ The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
▪ Worse awaited the Vietminh leader two evenings later, at a farewell dinner organized by Zhou.
fizzy drink
▪ Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks.
▪ Eat anything you like - yes, anything - chocolate, cream, fizzy drinks, coffee.
▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.
▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.
▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.
▪ She disapproves of anything that tastes really good, like icecream and fizzy drinks and hamburgers and chips and chocolate.
▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.
▪ Would you like to join a brilliant new club that's run by the makers of the fizzy drink, Tizer?
roaring drunk
▪ They were all roaring drunk and kept singing bawdy songs.
▪ I was twenty-three years old, and he got me roaring drunk.
▪ In some of the villages, apparently, vampire hunters get roaring drunk first.
▪ Never an unwise investment, never stone roaring drunk, never a pass at a secretary.
▪ So that night they celebrated, getting roaring drunk, playing cards and gambling.
something to eat/drink/read/do etc
▪ But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.
▪ It had something to do with being a man.
▪ It had something to do with skills, and something to do with expectation and hope.
▪ Most calendar programs remind you gently when you have something to do.
▪ No, you can't dash out for something to eat.
▪ Of course, the beer might have had something to do with this.
▪ Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat.
▪ You've done it a thousand times already, but you do it again, just for something to do.
stiff drink/whisky etc
▪ A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with.
▪ A good shower helped, but she would have liked to go down and search for a stiff drink.
▪ Calm your nerves by deep breathing, not by having a stiff drink.
▪ Come on, you need a stiff drink.
▪ I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down.
▪ Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep, than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia.
▪ When he got home he'd have a stiff drink and a long bath, followed by another stiff drink.
stinking drunk
▪ Clayton got positively stinking drunk.
▪ At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.
the demon drink
▪ Perhaps the demon drink had won?
the odd occasion/day/moment/drink etc
▪ However, on the odd occasion that I purchase fish elsewhere, I do quarantine the fish for two weeks.
▪ Not on the odd occasion, but each time they took this fit.
▪ On the odd occasion the jollities would get out of hand and the fists would fly.
▪ This doesn't matter on the odd occasion; it is only a problem if it occurs regularly.
▪ We've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year, but it's just the odd day basically.
▪ We just used to banter, have the odd drink together, fool around in the snow.
under the influence (of alcohol/drink/drugs etc)
▪ Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug.
▪ Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire.
▪ The motor velocity increases under the influence of the positive torque and the equilibrium position is attained with maximum velocity.
▪ The roads, under the influence of the rain, were becoming shocking.
▪ The weather became cooler under the influences of cold breezes from the frozen north, observed my master.
▪ Today I write this, happily, under the influence of a drug.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Whiskey?" "No thanks, I don't drink."
Drink your coffee before it gets cold.
▪ Charlie drinks way too much coffee.
▪ Did you drink a lot over Christmas?
▪ He's been depressed, and drinking a lot more recently.
▪ He was drinking vodka straight from the bottle.
▪ I think people who drink and drive should be banned from driving permanently.
▪ Is this water safe to drink?
▪ It was clear that Malone had been drinking heavily.
▪ My uncle drinks like a fish, and has done for years.
▪ She's been drinking more heavily recently.
▪ She picked up the cup and began to drink thirstily.
▪ What do you want to drink?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A man was sitting at a small table in the corner, drinking coffee from a delicate china cup.
▪ Customers stopping by to drink coffee and check on the markets screen found themselves locked out.
▪ Eventually I delivered my health to chance and drank whatever my companions drank.
▪ Pascoe drank some more whisky; then he drank a little more than that.
▪ The Romans believed the amethyst prevented drunkenness and used to drink out of goblets studded with these purple gems.
▪ They drank powdered milk instead of fresh.
▪ They had drunk a great deal and the night was warm, but on a sudden they were both stone-cold sober.
▪ They want customers to drink up, but wisely.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alcoholic
▪ I knew of no virtues except truthfulness, obedience, self-sacrifice, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks ....
▪ It now appears that daily consumption of one or two standard alcoholic drinks reduces the risk of heart disease.
▪ All alcoholic drinks and telephone calls will be charged as taken. 4.
▪ Absorption can be slowed a bit, but not much, if alcoholic drink is taken with food.
▪ How much do you know about alcoholic drinks? 1.
▪ This research will be extended by examining 10- to 16-year olds' perceptions of advertisements for alcoholic drinks.
▪ I am not sure how they reconciled that situation, since the Methodists were very much against alcoholic drink.
▪ This Review must include a report on the competition between different categories of alcoholic drink.
cold
▪ Next, I tried thinking of cold drinks and old friends, but the pain hung on.
▪ Finally, a cold drink directly stimulates receptors for coolness.
▪ Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it.
▪ Sometimes they offer a cup of tea, or a cold drink or something to eat.
▪ They had walked across the dust to the steps expectantly, thinking of the cool sweat on a cold drink.
▪ We order some cold sandwiches and cold drinks.
▪ Dry mucous membranes; dry or coated tongue with a red triangular tip. Cold drinks can bring on chilliness or cough.
▪ After a morning of hiking among the red rocks of Sedona, we returned to cold drinks and lunch in our vehicle.
cool
▪ You can also relax on the terrace of the lovely fresh water pool sipping a cool drink form the bar.
▪ In the evening, the Lanes offer warm conversation along with cool drinks, coffee, tea or hot chocolate.
▪ Her tongue felt parched for a cool drink.
▪ Nico, our host, serves cool drinks and limited snacks in the bar downstairs till supper time.
▪ You have probably been perspiring quite impressively too, and you are beginning to have fantasies of pints of a cool drink.
▪ In this oasis, you will disperse funds on food and snacks and cool drinks.
▪ She was standing with a tray of cool drinks.
▪ She was grateful for the cool drink, however, and for the really tasty snack.
fizzy
▪ Would you like to join a brilliant new club that's run by the makers of the fizzy drink, Tizer?
▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.
▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.
▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.
▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.
▪ She disapproves of anything that tastes really good, like icecream and fizzy drinks and hamburgers and chips and chocolate.
▪ Eat anything you like - yes, anything - chocolate, cream, fizzy drinks, coffee.
▪ Amid much razzmatazz PepsiCo announced that the second most popular fizzy drink in the world would henceforth come in blue packaging.
free
▪ Eat, drink and be merry at the Medieval Night which includes a meal, free drinks and an open-air castle disco.
▪ Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.
▪ These were then combined as a buffet and served back to the students together with one free soft drink of their choice.
▪ Maybe it's a case of all these important people getting free drinks in the George Best Suite after the match.
▪ Usually, it's just for a lift or free drinks, but she once flirted her way into a job.
hot
▪ He said he supposed it was and offered to show them into the Intensive Care room which had a hot drinks machine.
▪ Gone was the free and easy time of three meals a day and as many hot drinks as we liked.
▪ I wish I'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink.
▪ Alida went downstairs, stooping a little, not knowing that she stooped, annoyed at the trouble a hot drink caused.
Hot pasties and hot drinks are served below deck at the bar, a comfort on chilly days.
▪ All hot drinks also each have two teaspoons of sugar added.
▪ Then he remembered the hot drink he'd promised her.
▪ During cold weather, hot meals and plenty of hot drinks will make you feel warmer inside.
long
▪ Inside they are drinking up: two hundred and fifty black fellers nursing their last long drinks.
▪ Alice stole one long drink before rolling over in the boundless bed, fantasizing it as an endless beach of white cloud.
▪ I took a long drink and settled down to wait.
▪ I take a long drink at the water fountain, wondering what virus I might catch.
▪ On warm days a long and cooling drink, or a mug of tea, is impossible to resist.
▪ Only fear kept him from retching when he had taken a long drink.
▪ He took a long drink and filled his bottle.
▪ Sally sits down and takes a long drink of water from her squeeze bottle.
soft
▪ Alcohol and soft drinks are much harder to estimate.
▪ In the mornings Ruth Rasmussen would be ready with a cooler of sandwiches and soft drinks.
▪ Filled rolls with tea, coffee and soft drinks will be dispensed.
▪ There was a soft drink bottle on the windowsill.
▪ People at ground floor windows offered soft drinks.
▪ Teenage soft drink consumption has doubled in recent years.
▪ Two defendants were lorry drivers for a soft drinks company.
▪ A life-long lover of magazines, he found work at everything from a fan magazine to a soft drink publication.
stiff
▪ Calm your nerves by deep breathing, not by having a stiff drink.
▪ When he got home he'd have a stiff drink and a long bath, followed by another stiff drink.
▪ A good shower helped, but she would have liked to go down and search for a stiff drink.
▪ I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down.
▪ Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep, than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia.
▪ A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with.
strong
▪ He is that rare bird, the night-owl who likes talking without the prop of a strong drink in his hands.
▪ After finishing his degree in medicine, he wrote pamphlets against tobacco, strong drink, and slavery.
▪ The scent of rose water hung in the air, covering the stale smell of pipe tobacco and strong drink.
▪ We had no strong drink, no such thing as whiskey, before the white man came to our country.
▪ One Sunday, he went hunting with his fierce black mastiffs, stopping only to swig at a flask of strong drink.
▪ She on the other hand, thought that a drink, a strong drink, might be exactly what she needed.
▪ I think strong drink is damnation.
▪ To the best among them he offered opulent breakfasts ending with stronger drink than coffee.
■ NOUN
party
▪ They are the ideal tasters for a drinks party or guests who are just arriving.
▪ For a drinks party, five or six savouries per person is about right.
▪ They were indistinct at first, like the hum of conversation at a drinks party.
problem
▪ The defence solicitor, Jack Gowans, said Ballantine has a drink problem but is a kind, intelligent and caring man.
▪ The task of discovering whether an ageing individual has a drink problem requires considerable tact and sensitivity.
▪ And the secret past of stony -faced consultant Julian Chapman emerges in the shape of a failed marriage and a drink problem.
▪ He escaped a prison sentence after magistrates heard he was seeking help for his drink problem.
▪ His drink problem caused the break up of his marriage.
▪ I knew I had a drink problem.
▪ If Patsy had a penchant for a pretty frock, Hughie Gallacher had a drink problem.
▪ Jim's father has a chronic drink problem and he eventually put the family out of their house.
■ VERB
bring
▪ He also noted that she hadn't brought a drink.
▪ Another would request him to tell somebody to bring him a drink of water.
▪ He brought his drink up to his lips with the other.
▪ She replaced the binoculars on the table, brought her drink to her mouth simply because it was there in her hand.
▪ He brought her a drink, offered her a cigarette.
▪ He brings the drinks silently and hands me a glass.
▪ When we'd got back there the bird had brought the drinks out and the talk'd got filthier.
▪ She said no, but he did not hear her, and she waited until he brought the drink.
buy
▪ As the audience are too preoccupied to buy any drinks, the barman and five barmaids dance on the bar throughout.
▪ He patted backs and bought drinks, working the room in political style.
▪ Where could they eat steak and chips, buy their favourite drink, or be entertained?
▪ It all stunned Jack, who was a sucker for slick talk, and he bought me drinks for an hour.
▪ I hope it will be my privilege to buy you a drink as well.
▪ And they would have bought me drinks, and cleared a path for me.
▪ Instead he offers to buy me a drink.
enjoy
▪ Although I used to enjoy a drink, I started really drinking heavily after he died.
▪ If you enjoy an occasional drink this may do no harm but by cutting out drink altogether you avoid any possible risks.
▪ Here, two camera positions are being used alternately to record a group of friends enjoying a drink in the sun.
▪ It has a spacious lounge, and a traditional stube where you can enjoy drinks with the locals.
▪ I smoke too much and I enjoy a drink.
▪ From a very early age - in fact, right from the early weeks - babies enjoy a refreshing drink.
▪ If your child enjoys a bedtime drink there's no point in refusing one.
finish
▪ They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola.
▪ More customers entered, louder than the earlier ones, faster to finish their drinks.
▪ We finished our drinks and Siegfried immersed himself in the Veterinary Record as savoury smells began to issue from the kitchen.
▪ He finished his drink and got up to leave.
▪ Grace finished her drink quickly, and changed out of her wet clothes.
▪ While they ate hungrily, Ellen finished her drink, feeling light, warm and happy.
▪ As soon as I finished the drink, various players started to point their fingers at me again.
fix
▪ Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it.
▪ Wade fixed a pair of drinks, passed one over to Claude, and looked up at the clock over the stove.
get
▪ I went down to the washroom to get a drink of water, and to have a shave.
▪ We got drinks from the waitress and sat in our swivel chairs in front of these ma-chines.
▪ I said I was thirsty so she went to get me a drink.
▪ But it turned out she was only visiting the bar behind them to get a drink.
▪ Con got back with the drinks at the same time as Margaret reached the table.
▪ Fong allowed a man to get him a drink.
▪ Can I get you a drink?
▪ I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink.
give
▪ Outlaws sometimes came by and gave him food and drink.
▪ One of the men gave him a drink of whiskey, but he vomited it.
▪ Slowly I went from pot to pot, pot to pot, giving each flower its drink of water.
▪ There Dionysus gave them food and drink: herbs and berries and the milk of the wild goat.
▪ And you haven't given yourself a drink.
▪ After a week, the group that was given breakfast was given the drink, and vice versa.
▪ Call a doctor or nurse. Give them warm nourishing drinks.
▪ She had almost given up drink.
like
▪ Some would like a drink, but drinks are not allowed.
▪ I didn't like drink particularly.
▪ His father rose, walked into the bar and asked his son if he would like a drink.
▪ I prefer to prepare the food and I also like to serve the drinks.
▪ He averted his eyes from it and went into the kitchen, asking whether she would like an iced drink.
▪ Again, my Dad liked a drink.
▪ I like a drink myself but we have to watch it.
▪ One of them asked John if he would like a drink.
need
▪ He needed a drink and that old swine Busacher hadn't offered him anything at the villa.
▪ What she needed was a drink.
▪ He felt he needed a drink - this could be quite a trying evening.
▪ She would need a drink soon, and food.
▪ Alcoholics are mocked and tormented when they can not scrounge the kopek needed for their next drink.
▪ A sure sign he needed a drink.
▪ He needed a drink very badly; water would do.
▪ If you need a drink, dip a mug over the side - the water is disease-free.
offer
▪ Nathan moved among the guests, offering drinks, accepting condolences.
▪ Riders were offered food and drinks when their trip finally ended.
▪ His technique was to win women's confidence with his charm, and to offer them a spiked drink.
▪ Even worse, it turned out that being able to offer drinks was not a key promise for his customers.
▪ She heard his car in the drive, and called down to Victor to offer him a drink while he waited.
▪ Rip was offered a drink, which he enjoyed.
▪ At the half-time break three other members of the club had offered her a drink before I even reached the bar.
▪ Kurt, I never even offered you a drink.
order
▪ Conversation paused then continued in lower voices and several pairs of eyes watched both men cautiously as they ordered drinks.
▪ We settled into a table for two and ordered drinks.
▪ She wanted to order herself a drink, but she did not dare.
▪ For the sake of symmetry, Blue orders the same drink.
▪ Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks.
▪ She orders a cloudy greenish drink with ice cubes.
▪ Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink: the waiter may be gone some time.
▪ Coolly I ordered another drink, and swivelled on my stool.
pour
▪ It was claimed that they poured their drinks over the counter and then smashed their beer glasses.
▪ This reminds me of a problem that has been troubling Mycroft. Pour me a drink, Watson.
▪ While he was pouring the drinks Ron the landlord raised his eyebrows at me.
▪ As he was waiting for the barmaid to pour the drinks, Dexter could not resist temptation.
▪ Madge grabbed it and looked at it, smelled it and poured Kiki a drink.
▪ Luke poured drinks and Robyn accepted hers gratefully.
serve
▪ No, they would not serve only a drink, she should recall that.
▪ All the women agreed that Sherman served them drinks they had not seen him prepare and said they later felt very drugged.
▪ There's a pool surrounded by a sunterrace and a poolside bar which serves drinks and snacks during the day.
▪ Male speaker It's part of the 1964 licencing act you're not allowed to serve drink to people already intoxicated.
▪ Nico, our host, serves cool drinks and limited snacks in the bar downstairs till supper time.
▪ Zak's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink.
▪ Outside the door hovered Alfred, detailed by Auguste to serve drinks when royalty had arrived.
▪ I prefer to prepare the food and I also like to serve the drinks.
sip
▪ He smiled and sipped his drink, glancing across at the phone as he refilled his glass.
▪ We sipped our drink and spoke of other things and ignored everything that had happened.
▪ He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly.
▪ Take it easy. Sip your drink, don't gulp it.
▪ But then she would, he thought, sipping the delicate drink.
▪ While she was gone Johnny continued to smoke and to sip his drink.
▪ She sipped the drink and watched him from under her lashes.
take
▪ I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years.
▪ Only fear kept him from retching when he had taken a long drink.
▪ I took a long drink and settled down to wait.
▪ He takes a drink, moans with pleasure at the taste.
▪ He took a long drink and filled his bottle.
▪ Instead, he dropped the dead moth and immediately took a drink of water.
▪ Murder charge is dropped after claims that dead model took drink and drugs.
▪ I go into the bathroom, take a drink, a long one.
want
▪ Do you want a drink the next morning? 17.
▪ All at once she did not want the drink.
▪ I grinned lopsidedly and asked her if she wanted a drink.
▪ He wanted a drink, scotch, he wanted to sleep.
▪ I didn't want another drink anyway.
▪ Then he had to see an old schoolteacher, and so on, and all I wanted to do was drink beer.
▪ At about midnight, Lucker wakes up and wants a drink.
▪ I wanted a drink as well.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be meat and drink to sb
▪ These figures are heroes to conservatives for their espousal of policies that are meat and drink to the right, especially abortion.
being drunk and disorderly
▪ Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.
▪ Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.
▪ Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.
blind drunk
can hold your drink/liquor/alcohol etc
drink/laugh/scare etc yourself silly
▪ Well, I laughed myself silly.
drunk on/with sth
▪ We were drunk with freedom.
eat/drink your fill
▪ Here the nomads water their flocks and the horses drink their fill when the tourists have dismounted.
▪ I stopped at some blackberry bushes and ate my fill.
▪ Menelaus gave them a courteous greeting and bade them eat their fill.
▪ There was still time for Frankie, if he was very quiet and very careful, to eat his fill.
▪ Why were those high-fibre eaters keeping slim even when they were eating their fill?
farewell party/dinner/drink etc
▪ A celebration, a farewell party.
▪ Kate's local women's group gives her a farewell party of disapproval veiled by loyalty.
▪ On 8 August 1952 he and Joan gave a farewell party to Cambridge friends.
▪ She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave.
▪ The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
▪ Worse awaited the Vietminh leader two evenings later, at a farewell dinner organized by Zhou.
fizzy drink
▪ Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks.
▪ Eat anything you like - yes, anything - chocolate, cream, fizzy drinks, coffee.
▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.
▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.
▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.
▪ She disapproves of anything that tastes really good, like icecream and fizzy drinks and hamburgers and chips and chocolate.
▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.
▪ Would you like to join a brilliant new club that's run by the makers of the fizzy drink, Tizer?
refresh sb's drink
roaring drunk
▪ They were all roaring drunk and kept singing bawdy songs.
▪ I was twenty-three years old, and he got me roaring drunk.
▪ In some of the villages, apparently, vampire hunters get roaring drunk first.
▪ Never an unwise investment, never stone roaring drunk, never a pass at a secretary.
▪ So that night they celebrated, getting roaring drunk, playing cards and gambling.
something to eat/drink/read/do etc
▪ But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.
▪ It had something to do with being a man.
▪ It had something to do with skills, and something to do with expectation and hope.
▪ Most calendar programs remind you gently when you have something to do.
▪ No, you can't dash out for something to eat.
▪ Of course, the beer might have had something to do with this.
▪ Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat.
▪ You've done it a thousand times already, but you do it again, just for something to do.
stand sb a drink/meal etc
▪ A minute or two later-they are standing, drinking wine before dinner.
▪ He and Rufus had stood there drinking wine.
stiff drink/whisky etc
▪ A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with.
▪ A good shower helped, but she would have liked to go down and search for a stiff drink.
▪ Calm your nerves by deep breathing, not by having a stiff drink.
▪ Come on, you need a stiff drink.
▪ I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down.
▪ Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep, than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia.
▪ When he got home he'd have a stiff drink and a long bath, followed by another stiff drink.
stinking drunk
▪ Clayton got positively stinking drunk.
▪ At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.
the demon drink
▪ Perhaps the demon drink had won?
the odd occasion/day/moment/drink etc
▪ However, on the odd occasion that I purchase fish elsewhere, I do quarantine the fish for two weeks.
▪ Not on the odd occasion, but each time they took this fit.
▪ On the odd occasion the jollities would get out of hand and the fists would fly.
▪ This doesn't matter on the odd occasion; it is only a problem if it occurs regularly.
▪ We've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year, but it's just the odd day basically.
▪ We just used to banter, have the odd drink together, fool around in the snow.
under the influence (of alcohol/drink/drugs etc)
▪ Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug.
▪ Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire.
▪ The motor velocity increases under the influence of the positive torque and the equilibrium position is attained with maximum velocity.
▪ The roads, under the influence of the rain, were becoming shocking.
▪ The weather became cooler under the influences of cold breezes from the frozen north, observed my master.
▪ Today I write this, happily, under the influence of a drug.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Can I get you a drink?'' "I'll have a gin and tonic, please.''
▪ "Would you like a drink?" "Yes, I'll have a lemonade please."
▪ a drink of water
▪ a nice cool drink
▪ After a few drinks, Rick began to feel better.
▪ Do you feel like going out for a drink tonight?
▪ Do you want a drink?
▪ Give the children a drink of milk and something to eat.
▪ His family life is beginning to be affected by his drinking.
▪ It's under $10 for lunch and drinks at the Ivy Bush.
▪ She tipped her drink over his head and stormed out.
▪ There will be plenty of food and drink available at the fair.
▪ They've always got loads of drink in the house.
▪ They all went for a drink together after the film.
▪ We went out drinking last night.
▪ You can bring your own food and drink to the picnic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, my Dad liked a drink.
▪ Con got back with the drinks at the same time as Margaret reached the table.
▪ Enroute grab a drink from one of the dozens of eager volunteers.
▪ He finished his drink and got up to leave.
▪ He takes a drink, moans with pleasure at the taste.
▪ It all stunned Jack, who was a sucker for slick talk, and he bought me drinks for an hour.
▪ The roof garden of the Caravelle was one of the few places where drinks could still be had.
▪ These were then combined as a buffet and served back to the students together with one free soft drink of their choice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drink

Drink \Drink\, n.

  1. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

    Give me some drink, Titinius.
    --Shak.

  2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

    Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity.

    Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service.

    In drink, drunk. ``The poor monster's in drink.''
    --Shak.

    Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. `` Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.''
    --Prov. xx. 1.

Drink

Drink \Drink\, v. t.

  1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

    There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
    --Spenser.

    The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room.
    --Thackeray.

  2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

    And let the purple violets drink the stream.
    --Dryden.

  3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

    To drink the cooler air,
    --Tennyson.

    My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance.
    --Shak.

    Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
    --Pope.

  4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]

    And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last.
    --Taylor (1630.)

    To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness.
    --Shak.

    To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. ``Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle.''
    --J. C. Shairp.

    To drink off or To drink up, to drink completely, especially at one draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial.

    To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.

Drink

Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Drank (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly Drunk (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]

  1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

    Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
    --Luke xvii. 8.

    He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty.
    --Job xxi. 20.

    Drink of the cup that can not cloy.
    --Keble.

  2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the ?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
    --Pope.

    And they drank, and were merry with him.
    --Gem. xliii. 34.

    Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
    --Thackeray.

    To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.

    I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drink

Old English drincan "to drink," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, past participle druncen), from Proto-Germanic *drenkan (cognates: Old Saxon drinkan, Old Frisian drinka, Dutch drinken, Old High German trinkan, German trinken, Old Norse drekka, Gothic drigkan "to drink"), which is of uncertain origin or connections, perhaps from a root meaning "to draw."\n

\nMost Indo-European words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (source of Greek pino, Latin biber, Irish ibim, Old Church Slavonic piti, Russian pit'; see imbibe).\n

\nThe noun meaning "beverage, alcoholic beverage" was in late Old English.\nThe noun, AS. drinc, would normally have given southern drinch (cf. drench), but has been influenced by the verb.

[Weekley]

\nTo drink like a fish is first recorded 1747.
Wiktionary
drink

Etymology 1 vb. (context ambitransitive English) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. Etymology 2

n. 1 A beverage. 2 A (served) alcoholic beverage. 3 The action of drinking, especially with the verbs ''take'' or ''have''. 4 A type of beverage (usually mixed). 5 Alcoholic beverages in general.

WordNet
drink
  1. v. take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda" [syn: imbibe]

  2. consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" [syn: booze, fuddle]

  3. propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, pledge, salute, wassail]

  4. be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage" [syn: drink in]

  5. drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife" [syn: tope]

  6. [also: drunk, drank]

drink
  1. n. a single serving of a beverage; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner"

  2. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence]

  3. any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: beverage, drinkable, potable]

  4. any large deep body of water; "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"

  5. the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" [syn: swallow, deglutition]

  6. [also: drunk, drank]

Wikipedia
Drink

A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to basic needs, drinks form part of the culture of human society.

An alcoholic drink is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, although in chemistry the definition of an alcohol includes many other compounds. Alcoholic drinks, such as wine, beer, and liquor, have been part of human culture and development for 8,000 years.

Non-alcoholic drinks often signify drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer and wine but are made with less than .5 percent alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines.

Usage examples of "drink".

For if so be it doth not, then may ye all abide at home, and eat of my meat, and drink of my cup, but little chided either for sloth or misdoing, even as it hath been aforetime.

Yet he abode with them long, and ate and drank amidst the hay with them till the moon shone brightly.

The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.

If he smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much absinth it was because he took civilization as he found it, and did the things that he found his civilized brothers doing.

I tasted blood as though I were already drinking it, and I felt the abysmal and desperate emptiness that I always feel before I feast.

There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.

As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.

When there is great acidity of the stomach, which may be known by heart burn, saleratus may be taken in water, to neutralize it, but should not be drunk within an hour of the time for taking other medicines.

Now, Ferguson, to put your charges against Rochester in concrete form, you believe that he was insanely jealous of Jimmie Turnbull, that he recognized him in the Police Court in his burglar disguise, slipped a dose of aconitine in a glass of water which Turnbull drank, and after declaring that his friend had died from angina pectoris, disappeared.

He names the beverage Dopokoke and proceeds to make a fortune with it - the terrible punchline being that his own son becomes addicted to the drink and eventually dies.

Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.

And as he rode along in that manner, taking frequent drinks, he did not think about any promises his master had made to him, and he did not consider it work but sheer pleasure to go around seeking adventures, no matter how dangerous they might be.

The image of his mother, her face when looking at his father while he sat at the kitchen table in the drinks that were between affable and drunk.

We paid with a sheaf of Afghanis, drank the tea his sweating assistant had brought, and parted from him on a wave of mutual good wishes.

I was especially happy whenever I was sent afield to take the place of some peasant shepherd who was ill or drunk or otherwise incapacitated, for I enjoyed being by myself in the green pastures, and the herding of sheep is no backbreaking job.