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gulp down

Verb

Meaning

To eat very quickly without chewing the food properly.

To drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time.

(figuratively) To believe without questioning; to swallow.

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She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul. Paulo Coelho

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. William S. Burroughs

To gulp down anger is the most courageous act one can perform. One who does it becomes humble. Meher Baba

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better. Judi Dench

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. Wallace Stevens

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