drink something like lemonade
English
Verb
drink something like lemonade
- (simile) To drink something (especially an alcoholic drink) easily and in large quantities.
- 2011, Joe Thompson-Swift, A Choice of Evils
- The weasel drank his scotch like lemonade and before we had even touched upon our topic of interest he ordered another.
- 1981, Mary Ann Crenshaw, End of the Rainbow (page 12)
- I had come to love sweet mixed drinks — whiskey sours, Bacardi cocktails, daiquiris — and I drank them like lemonade.
- 2011, Joe Thompson-Swift, A Choice of Evils