Idiom idiom
yardarm it
Meaning
To begin to drink alcohol once it is late enough in the day.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is five o'clock, so it is time to yardarm it.”
“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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Last updated August 10, 2026