drown Idiom, Proverb

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drown one

drink alcohol to forget one

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drown out

make so much noise that it is impossible to hear The team captain was drowned out by the cheering fans.

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drown your sorrow

drink until the sadness goes away Jay drowned her sorrow in wine. Then she had a headache.

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if you're born to hang, you won't drown

"fate controls how we die; we do not control the time and cause of our death" "After rescuing the swimmer, he said to me, ""If you're born to hang, you won't drown."""

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Drown your sorrows

If someone gets drunk or drinks a lot to try to stop feeling unhappy, they drown their sorrows.

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drown one's troubles|drown|drown one's sorrows|sor

v. phr., informal To drink liquor to try to forget something unhappy. When his wife was killed in an auto accident, Mr. Green tried to drown his sorrows in whiskey. When Fred lost his job and had to give up his new car, he tried to drown his troubles at the nearest tavern.

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drown out|drown

v. To make so much noise that it is impossible to hear (some other sound). The children's shouts drowned out the music. The actor's words were drowned out by applause.

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drown

drown
In addition to the idioms beginning with drown, also see like a drowned rat.
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- drown one's sorrows
- drown out

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drown one's sorrows

drown one's sorrows
Drink liquor to escape one's unhappiness. For example, After the divorce, she took to drowning her sorrows at the local bar. The notion of drowning in drink dates from the late 1300s.

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like a drowned rat

like a drowned rat
Also, wet as a drowned rat. Soaking wet and utterly bedraggled, as in When she came in out of the rain she looked like a drowned rat. This simile appeared in Latin nearly 2,000 years ago, and in English about the year 1500.