hold one's liquor
verbDefinitions
To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after…
To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after consuming a significant amount of alcohol.
- Just because a person is descended from hard-drinking ancestors is no sign that he can "hold his liquor" better than others.
- Sandy Marsh didn't hold her liquor particularly well; she could get tipsy on two glasses of red wine.
- When I first came to London and fell in with Sebastian and Evangeline, neither could hold their liquor, nor judge which glass should be their last.
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