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drown one's sorrows

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  1. Drink liquor to escape one's unhappiness. For example, After the divorce, she took to drowning her sorrows at the local bar. The notion of drowning in drink dates from the late 1300s.

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What's the place to go in Vegas to drown one's sorrows after a bad beat?

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