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hold one's alcohol en · VERB
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(idiomatic) Synonym of hold one's liquor.
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’t hold his alcohol — perhaps because he was a diabetic, as it’s now believed — so he became a “performing monkey,” she says.
2013 August 15, Michael Shapiro, “Discovering Dylan Thomas’s Wales”, in The Washington Post:
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hold one's liquor