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Meaning: (idiomatic)Synonym ofhold one's liquor.2013August 15, Michael Shapiro, “Discovering Dylan Thomas’s Wales”, inThe Washington Post[1]:Annie tells me that Thomas wrote hundreds of poems in this house, with his greatest output coming between ages 16 and 20. He worked in the morning and drank late, Annie says. Unfortunately, Thomas couldn’thold his alcohol— perhaps because he was a diabetic, as it’s now believed — so he became a “performing monkey,” she says.
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