hold one's alcohol

hold one's alcohol

English

Verb

hold one's alcohol (third-person singular simple present holds one's alcohol, present participle holding one's alcohol, simple past and past participle held one's alcohol)

1. (idiomatic) Synonym of hold one's liquor.
   • 2013 August 15, Michael Shapiro, “Discovering Dylan Thomas’s Wales”, in The Washington Post‎:

     Annie tells me that Thomas wrote hundreds of poems in this house, with his greatest output coming between ages 16 and 20. He worked in the morning and drank late, Annie says. Unfortunately, Thomas couldn’t hold his alcohol — perhaps because he was a diabetic, as it’s now believed — so he became a “performing monkey,” she says.