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Warrener Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

nurse a beer?

People nurse their beer in the bar.

What does it mean? Thanks.
  

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Hi, People nurse their beer in the bar. What does it mean? Thanks.

  • Hi, People nurse their beer in the bar.
  • What does it mean?
  • Thanks.
  • They drink their beer slowly, so that one beer lasts a long time.
  • Thus, they 'take care of it', they 'nurse it'.
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Hi,

People nurse their beer in the bar.

What does it mean? Thanks.


They drink their beer slowly, so that one beer lasts a long time. Thus, they 'take care of it', they 'nurse it'.

If they are unhappy, sometimes we say they 'cry into their beer'.

Best wishes, Clive
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They drink their beer slowly to make it last a long time.

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