down the hatch

Idioms  

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]

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Example Sentences

“Breaking wind going up the hatch was okay. It was the people below you who suffered. But going down the hatch kept you in the cloud the whole way down.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021

Diners at Koks tend not to be timid eaters; with rare exceptions, the mealworms go down the hatch.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

But as enormous as the B-52 is on the outside, once you fold down the hatch and clamber up the ladder into the dark interior, it is anything but spacious.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2015

Paleontologists have found that Tyrannosaurus rex chased down prey, ripped off chunks of flesh, and threw back its head to toss them down the hatch.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2015

As I watched him follow the smoldering sailor down the hatch, I had a terrible feeling.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan