To drink like a fish -- that’s the idiomatic expression in English for drinking alcohol heavily.
US Archaeologist Patrick McGovern thinks that humans grew crops initially not to bake bread but rather to produce beer. Or a Neolithic version of it, possibly tasting very much as Portuguese beer does these days.
Dr. Mitchell Sogin recently established that all animal life derived from sponges.
The idiomatic expression in Portuguese for drinking alcohol heavily is “…like a sponge.” Surely other hyper-advanced linguistic systems share this expression with the Portuguese idiom.
An idiom is a language, but it reminds me of idiot.
An idiot is a human who has a fish-like gaze.
Now, who drinks like a fish?