bend one’s elbow
bend (one's)/the elbow
To drink alcohol, perhaps excessively. Come bend your elbow at the bar with us tonight! If you're this hung-over, you must have really bent the elbow at the party last night.
See also: bend, elbow
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
bend one’s elbow
and bend the elbow and lift one’s elbow tv. to take a drink of an alcoholic beverage; to drink alcohol to excess. He’s down at the tavern, bending his elbow. If you didn’t spend so much time lifting your elbow, you’d get more done.
See also: bend, elbow
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- bend (one's)/the elbow
- bend elbow
- bend the elbow
- bend your elbow
- crook (one's)/the elbow
- crook one's elbow
- elbow-bending
- lift (one's) elbow
- lift one’s elbow
- lift your elbow