Saturday, March 14, 2020

Lets Party!

Lets Party! Lets Party! Lets Party! By Maeve Maddox From a reader comes the question: Could you cover the term carousing and how to use it correctly, along with other party-related terms? Thanks! Carousing suggests noisy, drunken celebration. People leaving bars singing and shouting can be said to be carousing. Examples: The neighbors caroused into the early morning hours. Jack and his friends were carousing in Florida when the accident occurred. The word comes from Middle French carousser drink, quaff, swill. Swill, as a verb, suggests piggish over-indulgence: He swilled one drink after another. Here are some other expressions, some of them euphemisms, for partying in the sense of over-indulging in drink or other mood-enhancers. celebrate party party down rave it up make merry paint the town (paint the town red) whoop it up let your hair down live it up have a ball have a wild time have an orgy (connotes sexual indulgence as well as inebriation) who live at her mansion, Ekeby Manor, and work in her iron mine. These men, the Cavalieri di Ekebu, are certainly a carousing bunch of good-for-nothings. But Giosta joins them, and through various plot contrivances everyone is redeemed (www.nytimes.com) of marches and parties that can easily overwhelm even the most extroverted among us. But there are plenty of ways to celebrate Pride away from some of the weekend’s most crowded events - including Ms. Minogue’s Sunday appearance a (www.nytimes.com) national Democrats have celebrated the President Trump-inspired surge of activist energy coursing through the party in their efforts to take control of the House, many of those same leaders have moved to tame that energy, from Co (www.nytimes.com) Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Expressions category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:70 "Home" Idioms and ExpressionsHang, Hung, Hanged50 Tips on How to Write Good