drink something like lemonade

drink something like lemonade (third-person singular simple present drinks (something) like lemonade, present participle drinking (something) like lemonade, simple past drank (something) like lemonade, past participle drunk (something) like lemonade)

1. (simile) To drink something (especially an alcoholic drink) easily and in large quantities.
   • 2011, Joe Thompson-Swift, A Choice of Evils:

     The weasel drank his scotch like lemonade and before we had even touched upon our topic of interest he ordered another.

   • 1981, Mary Ann Crenshaw, End of the Rainbow, page 12:

     I had come to love sweet mixed drinks — whiskey sours, Bacardi cocktails, daiquiris — and I drank them like lemonade.