Idioms

hit the sauce

hit the sauce

slang To drink alcohol, especially frequently or excessively. You need to stop hitting the sauce and start taking care of your kids! All this stress at work right now is enough to make me hit the sauce. Look, you can't hit the sauce like this every time something goes wrong! It doesn't help anything.
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References in periodicals archive
HIT THE SAUCE GET saucy with Blue Dragon's new squeezy Asian table sauces.
FRANCE coach Marc Lievremont was ready to hit the sauce after his shambolic side were humbled by rampant Tonga.
He'd clearly had enough of babysitting her while she hit the sauce.
Meyers hit the sauce big time during a weekend visit to Dublin in November.
Just as in humans, some mice voluntarily abstain, some indulge occasionally, and some seriously hit the sauce, consuming as much as "several fifths of liquor" every day, in people terms.
When asked if he had any other methodological quibbles with the study, Smithers replied: "Initially, we worried that the HR managers who did not respond to the survey were either congenitally upbeat human beings who were not comfortable with the subject of depression, or folks who probably hit the sauce pretty hard and never got around to filling out questionnaires.
The Rovers chief was worried that his stars would hit the sauce on Saturday night and forget they had a vital league game against promotion rivals Falkirk.
Long before ADA or its predecessor statute in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 came along, managers in civil service systems were finding it a headache to handle employees who hit the sauce. The same was often true for private-industry managers who dealt with powerful labor unions.
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