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A solvent so good at dissolving problems it occasionally dissolves the drinker too.
means To take liquid into the mouth and swallow it — or, as a noun, a beverage, especially an alcoholic one.
from From Old English 'drincan,' a sturdy Germanic verb with cousins all across the family — Dutch 'drinken,' German 'trinken,' Gothic 'drigkan.' It belongs to the old strong-verb pattern that gives us drink/drank/drunk, the same vowel-shifting machinery behind sing/sang/sung. The deeper root is murky, but the word has meant 'to swallow liquid' for as long as English has been English, and probably long before.
- oldest recipe
- Beer instructions appear in 3900-year-old Sumerian poetry
- water gamble
- Beer once outranked water as a safer bet
- thirst lie
- By the time you feel thirsty, you're already dehydrated
- toast origin
- Clinking glasses once proved your wine wasn't poisoned
- coffee ban
- Mecca tried banning coffee in 1511 for sparking dissent
coca-cola — world's most consumed beverage brand, 1.9 billion servings daily
tea — second most consumed drink globally after water, 3 billion cups daily
coffee — consumed by 2 billion people worldwide, third most popular beverage
beer — oldest recorded alcoholic drink, brewed since ancient mesopotamia 5000 bce