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Phrase(s): drown someone in something
Fig. to inundate someone with something. (See also drown in something.) • I will drown you in money and fine clothes. • Mike drowned the nightclub singer in fancy jewels and furs., Phrase(s): drown in something
1. Lit. to be asphyxiated in some liquid. • Wouldn’t you hate to drown in that nasty, smelly water? • I am not choosy about what I don’t want to drown in. 2. Fig. to experience an overabundance of something. • We are just drowning in cabbage this year. Our garden is full of it. • They were drowning in bills, not money to pay them with., Phrase(s): drown someone or an animal in something
to cause someone or an animal to die of asphyxiation in a liquid. • He accidentally drowned the cat in the bathtub. • She drowned herself in the lake.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs