English : Laugh and Learn

to drown your sorrows = to drink until you forget your problems

“What’s this I hear, old pal? Your wife’s left you, old man? Well, why don’t you go home and drown your sorrows in booze?”

“Impossible.”

“No booze?”

“No sorrow.”

booze = alcohol

One rare exception - a nurse is always female. When it is a man you say he is a male nurse.

brat = horrible child

To talk through your hat = to talk nonsens

A customer in a shoe-shop heaved a sigh of relief. “At last, a pair that fits me.”
“Not surprising,” replied