drown sorrows

drown your sorrows

to drink a lot of alcohol because you want to stop feeling sad Frank insisted that I accompany him to his house, where I could drown my sorrows.

Usage notes: sometimes said about eating or drinking something other than alcohol: I decided I'd drown my sorrows in a bucket of chocolate ice cream.

to drink a lot of alcohol because you want to stop feeling sad I've got a bottle of whiskey here - shall we stay in and drown our sorrows?

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Madara	-	Latvian
CÉSar	THE-sahr (Spanish), SE-sahr (Latin American Spanish)	French, Spanish, Portuguese
Nishat	-	Arabic, Bengali
Isay	-	Russian
Chinwe	-	Western African, Igbo
Theodosia	-	Ancient Greek, Greek