punish the bottle

punish the bottle
   to drink wine to excess
   In former times, jars or pots could suffer similar abuse:
    What with worry and waiting, he'd been punishing the pot, and was cut enough to be quarrelsome. (Fraser, 1997, writing in 19th-century style)

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