Drink & Drug Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

The impact was roughly equal to giving alcohol to the Eskimos.

Every pub has its superstar, its hero, its pub athlete.

Donald Trump has agreed to endorse a line of premium vodkas. Trump's vodka doesn't give you a hangover, but it does gives you a comb-over.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

Some people think it's clever to take drugs — most of them are customs officers.

To suppose that we could be rich and not behave as the rich do is like thinking we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

When it comes to buying a round he's a tight as a duck's behind.

My mouth is drier than Ghandi's flip-flops.

This morning, my head was totally pickled, feeling like it ought to be in an science institution, in a glass jar.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in the brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and trash them.

He felt like a underground potato dreaming of the vodka to be made from it.

Mr. Drunkard drove the car as though tacking a sail boat.

When the wine goes in, secrets go out.

Wine is sunlight held together by water.

The Tower of Pisa stance is where a junkie dealer leans to advertise the effectiveness of his goods.

The pub beckons like a trapdoor to somewhere terribly predictable.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

SENECA

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