drown one’s troubles/ drown one’s sorrows

drown one’s troubles/ drown one’s sorrows
Drown one’s troubles/ drown one’s sorrows
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 Bill is in the bar, drowning his troubles.

English-Russian small dictionary of idioms. 2014.

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