Drink in
Drink in verb - To receive or accept gladly or readily.
Usage example: the studio audience for the infomercial seemed to drink in—a little too readily—every word of the host's spiel
Eat
Eat verb - To take in as food.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- You have to wonder... Of course, since he hadn't had anything to eat or drink in the whole movie (not even the Pepsi he ordered), he never needed to go!
Source: Bottomless Bladder - Fearing poisoning, Mithridates began systematically dosing himself with every known poison, a little at a time until he could eat and drink in ease as his would-be assassins looked on.
Source: Crazy Prepared / Real Life - He can eat and drink in human fashion as a form of disguise, but he points out that human food and drink do not agree with him.
Source: Literature / Varney the Vampire
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