down the hatch

1. Drink up, as in “Down the hatch,” said Bill, as they raised their glasses. This phrase, often used as a toast, employs hatch in the sense of “a trap door found on ships.” [Slang; c. 1930]

Example Sentences

“Oh, put it down. Down the hatch,” Aubrey Plaza said while eating pizza for breakfast, in a downtown Los Angeles restaurant that was otherwise deserted on a late-August Friday morning.

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Whereas many frog and lizard tongues became fine-tuned for catching prey and getting it down the hatch, snake tongues instead evolved to provide an exquisite sense of smell, an adaptation that enables snakes to detect and sneak up on distant or hidden prey.

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Another batch went down the hatch, a quite humongous dose, And that is why you found me here, completely comatose.

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At Down the Hatch, a casual sports bar on Christopher Street, Talia Shor, 37, a real estate agent in Manhattan, had gathered friends to celebrate the 39th birthday of her husband, Phil Petite.

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Down the hatch, and noted in my prefrontal cortex.

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