Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Drink Deep

Drink a deep draught. The allusion is to the peg tankards. Those who drank deep, drank to the lower pegs. (See Peg.)

“We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.”

—Shakespeare: Hamlet. i. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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