hit the sauce

hit the sauce

To drink alcohol, especially heavily and frequently. You need to stop hitting the sauce and start taking care of your kids!
See also: hit, sauce
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sauce parlor
  • awesome
  • awesome sauce
  • veggie
  • veggy
  • care for another (something)
  • care for another?
  • lick (something) up
  • lick up
  • on the market
References in periodicals archive
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LES BLEUS HIT BOOZE
He'd clearly had enough of babysitting her while she hit the sauce.
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Meyers hit the sauce big time during a weekend visit to Dublin in November.
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Just as in humans, some mice voluntarily abstain, some indulge occasionally, and some seriously hit the sauce, consuming as much as "several fifths of liquor" every day, in people terms.
Absolut mice
When asked if he had any other methodological quibbles with the study, Smithers replied: "Initially, we worried that the HR managers who did not respond to the survey were either congenitally upbeat human beings who were not comfortable with the subject of depression, or folks who probably hit the sauce pretty hard and never got around to filling out questionnaires.
The Great Depression
The Rovers chief was worried that his stars would hit the sauce on Saturday night and forget they had a vital league game against promotion rivals Falkirk.
The party's Rover lads; NICK'S HEROES ON HOLD
Long before ADA or its predecessor statute in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 came along, managers in civil service systems were finding it a headache to handle employees who hit the sauce. The same was often true for private-industry managers who dealt with powerful labor unions.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a good beer: how the ADA has turned alcoholism into a right