elbow-bending

elbow-bending

Drinking alcohol, perhaps excessively. No elbow-bending for me tonight, fellas—I've got an early morning tomorrow. If you're this hung-over, you must have done some serious elbow-bending at the party last night.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

elbow-bending

n. drinking liquor; drinking liquor to excess. She spends quite a bit of time at elbow-bending.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • bend (one's)/the elbow
  • bend elbow
  • bend one’s elbow
  • bend the elbow
  • bend your elbow
  • crook (one's)/the elbow
  • crook one's elbow
  • fishy about the gills
  • take five
  • take ten
References in periodicals archive
And there are plenty of helpings of blame to go around -- fast food, slow metabolism, excessive elbow-bending. POURTIONS was created to help you take back the power and counter this unhealthy trend."
"Every day that the [Chicago] Cubs had a home game, I would head down to Wrigleyville and do a little pregame elbow-bending with some of the Windy City's most faithful fans...."
Many fans and historians blame Houk for over-working a twenty-one-year-old arm that threw dozens of elbow-bending sliders to the tune of 250 innings and twenty-four complete games.
Wales' defence was aggressive and such was their achievement in not conceding a point that the Barbarians did not enjoy their customary post-match elbow-bending and went straight to their hotel.
Take three seconds to slowly initiate the elbow-bending movement and seven to complete the lift.
Luckily the layout gives you room for a breather with an airier seating area near the door and, despite the apparent lack of space, Ad Lib has a Tardis- like talent, allowing everyone enough elbow-bending room.
But they soon discovered the only pre-match warm-up Roger had taken part in was of the elbow-bending variety.
Brands include the Formaster tube-end-forming machine, Databend CNC, and a new elbow-bending machine whose cutoff saw can be repositioned to vary the cut angle of each bent component.