Idiom
twelve-ounce curls
Meaning
Drinking beer.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He spends his weekends doing twelve-ounce curls at the local bar.”
“After a long week of hard labor, the construction crew relaxed by doing some twelve-ounce curls.”
“The weary travelers sought refuge in the tavern, where they spent the evening engaged in twelve-ounce curls to forget their troubles.”
Examples
simple
“He spends his weekends doing twelve-ounce curls at the local bar.”
contextual
“After a long week of hard labor, the construction crew relaxed by doing some twelve-ounce curls.”
complex
“The weary travelers sought refuge in the tavern, where they spent the evening engaged in twelve-ounce curls to forget their troubles.”
Origin
From the United States, a compound of the twelve-ounce volume common to American beer bottles and cans and curls, the weightlifting exercise. The term draws a comparison between the repetitive motion of bicep training and the lifting of a beverage to the mouth.
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