"drink like a fish" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-drink like a fish.ogg [Australia] Forms: drinks like a fish [present, singular, third-person], drinking like a fish [participle, present], drank like a fish [past], drunk like a fish [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|drink<,,drank,drunk> like a fish}} drink like a fish (third-person singular simple present drinks like a fish, present participle drinking like a fish, simple past drank like a fish, past participle drunk like a fish)
  1. (simile) To drink (especially alcohol) heavily and in excess. Categories (topical): Alcoholism, Drinking Translations (drink alcohol heavily): drinken als een tempelier (Dutch), drinki kiel funelo (Esperanto), juoda kuin sieni (Finnish), boire comme un trou (French), saufen wie ein Loch (German), iszik, mint a kefekötő (Hungarian), iszik, mint a gödény (Hungarian), bere come una spugna (Italian), 鯨飲する (geiin suru) (Japanese), pić jak szewc (Polish), beber como uma esponja (Portuguese), пить как ло́шадь (pitʹ kak lóšadʹ) (english: drink like a horse) [imperfective] (Russian), пить как гу́бка (pitʹ kak gúbka) (english: drink like a sponge) [imperfective] (Russian), пья́нствовать (pʹjánstvovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), буха́ть (buxátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), beber como una esponja (Spanish), dricka som en svamp (Swedish)

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      "sense": "drink alcohol heavily",
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