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
Melitta	me-LI-tah (German)	Ancient Greek, German
Temitope	-	Western African, Yoruba
Jaycob	JAY-kəb	English (Rare)
Stamatis	-	Greek
Florin	flo-REEN	Romanian
Chester	CHES-tər	English