"hold one's liquor" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-hold one's liquor.ogg [Australia] Forms: holds one's liquor [present, singular, third-person], holding one's liquor [participle, present], held one's liquor [participle, past], held one's liquor [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hold<,,held> one's liquor}} hold one's liquor (third-person singular simple present holds one's liquor, present participle holding one's liquor, simple past and past participle held one's liquor)
  1. (idiomatic) To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after consuming a significant amount of alcohol. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Drinking Synonyms: hold one's alcohol, hold one's drink Related terms: good drunk Translations (to have a considerable tolerance to alcohol): kestää viinaa (Finnish), tenir l’alcool (French), avoir une bonne descente (French), viel Alkohol vertragen (German), mieć mocną głowę [imperfective] (Polish), уме́ть пить (umétʹ pitʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), aguantar (Spanish), aguantar la bebida (Spanish), tener cultura alcohólica (Spanish)

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