Drink like a fish

We use this phrase when discussing someone’s tendency to drink too much alcohol.

“Give me the bottle, I can drink like a fish now, like an elephant.”

Origin
The phrase first appeared in 1640 in Fletcher and  Shirley’s The Night Walker, or the Little Thief and is probably related to an allusion of fish open-mouthed taking in a lot of water.

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