Idiom
prop up the bar
Meaning
To spend time drinking alcohol at the bar in a pub.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He likes to prop up the bar every Friday night.”
“After a long week at work, he headed straight to the pub to prop up the bar with his friends.”
“The old regular continued to prop up the bar until closing time, recounting stories of the neighborhood to anyone who would listen.”
Examples
simple
“He likes to prop up the bar every Friday night.”
contextual
“After a long week at work, he headed straight to the pub to prop up the bar with his friends.”
complex
“The old regular continued to prop up the bar until closing time, recounting stories of the neighborhood to anyone who would listen.”
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