Noun
strong drink (uncountable)
Synonym of liquor, an alcoholic beverage, particularly a distilled beverage with a high alcohol content.
Sure, beer is alcoholic, sure, but I wouldn't really call it a strong drink. Maybe a really strong IPA would count, though.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. Robert A. Heinlein
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast. Winston Churchill
What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group. Douglas Adams
After her stint in NYC she goes back to her home in a suburb of to spend the rest of her summer and here she nurses her depression like a strong drink. Source: Internet
Wine is seen as a "mocker" and strong drink is "raging"; however, simple consumption of beer or the very common roots wine are not systematically a part of Rastafari culture this way or that. Source: Internet
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth, and will reconcile many of the Israelites to the Lord their God. Source: Internet