pull a cork
pull a cork
To begin drinking an alcoholic beverage, especially wine. You should come by on Friday—we can have dinner, pull a cork or two, it will be great!
See also: cork, pull
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
pull a cork
Have a drink. This expression dates from the days when homebrewed potent potables were stored in large jugs with cork stoppers. A suggestion that the contents be shared might have been phrased as “Hey, neighbor, you about ready to pull that cork?”
See also: cork, pull
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- hard liquor
- Black Russian
- buy you a drink?
- (Can I) buy you a drink?
- cork up
- corked up
- dry
- dead marine
- dead soldier
- wino