drain the cup

1. 1.

   drink to the last drop

   “drink up--there's more wine coming”

   Synonymsdrink up

   Broaderdrink

Questions about drain the cup

What does drain the cup mean?

drain the cup means "drink to the last drop".

What is another word for drain the cup?

Close synonyms include drink up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drain the cup a common word?

drain the cup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.