drown one's sorrows

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zabel	-	Armenian
Jehoram	-	Biblical
Seppo (2)	SEP-po	Finnish
Txomin	-	Basque
Aswathi	-	Indian, Malayalam
MariÁN	-	Slovak, Czech, Hungarian