drink off dead Nelson酗酒

【使用地区】：加拿大纽芬兰

【释义】：

To drink alcohol copiously and indiscriminately．Lord Horatio Nelson，England’s greatest naval hero，was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805，and his body was brought back to England for burial．The fabled hero became the subject of many legends，including one claiming that his body was brought home preserved in rum．This led to the British slang expression Nelson’s blood for rum and the Newfoundland expression recorded here．

指随意地，大量地喝酒。英国最伟大的海军英雄Horatio Nelson(1758－1805)于1805年在特拉法尔加战役中死亡，他的尸体被运回英国安葬。这位著名的英雄成了许多传说中的话题，其中有一则称，他的尸体运回国内时被保存在朗姆酒中。由此衍生出英国俚语Nelson’s blood，意为“朗姆酒”，还有就是这个纽芬兰用语，其字面意思是“痛饮死去的纳尔逊”。