taste for the bottle

taste for the bottle
   an addiction to alcohol
   See bottle1:
    A letter from her daughter Norah to Henry Harrison delicately hinted at a taste for the bottle. (R. F. Foster, 1993, describing Mrs C. S. Parnell in later life)

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