leave your can

leave your can
   obsolete
   to desist from drinking alcohol
   Euphemistic in the negative, when used of a drunkard:
    His countenance had the ruddiness which betokens one who is in no haste to 'leave his can'. (J. Boswell, 1791)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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