It is five o'clock, so it is time to yardarm it.
yardarm it
idiomTo begin to drink alcohol once it is late enough in the day.
After a long week of hard work, they decided to yardarm it with a cold beer on the porch.
Once the sun dipped below the horizon, the weary travelers felt it was finally appropriate to yardarm it and share a bottle of wine.
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