bend one's elbow

bend (one's)/the elbow

To drink alcohol, perhaps excessively. Come bend your elbow at the bar with us tonight! If you're this hung-over, you must have really bent the elbow at the party last night. Please don't let her drive home, she's clearly been bending her elbow tonight.

See also: bend, elbow

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bend one’s elbow

and bend the elbow and lift one’s elbow

tv. to take a drink of an alcoholic beverage; to drink alcohol to excess. He’s down at the tavern, bending his elbow. If you didn’t spend so much time lifting your elbow, you’d get more done.

See also: bend, elbow

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