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Drinking 

They were drinking cherry rum in science class and I tried to stop them but they wouldn’t listen

Drinking for revenge 

Drinking for revenge is a toast used by people known for their excessive use of alcohol. It’s the intake equivalent of whistling past a graveyard as though the rules of the tombstone don’t apply to you. The entire toast goes:

Dinking killed my mother; drinking killed my father; so I’m drinking for revenge!
Drinking for revenge is a toast used by people known for their high alcohol intake. This usually doesn’t end well!

Drinking from a dry tap 

Being gay is great, I love drinking from a dry tap!

drinking the kool-aid 

1. (non-pejoratively, uncommon use) To fervently subscribe into a cause or belief with passion and energy.

2. (pejoratively, common use) To heavily buy into a cause or belief that is utterly doomed to failure and disgrace with complete disregard to all reasoning, evidence, and intuitions that clearly indicate such a result. Referring to an inability or unwillingness of someone to be persuaded out of believing obvious nonsense -- even when confronted with the facts -- often times out of a sense of loyalty to a group identity even if there is no reason to do so. Generally implies the complicity of an individual or a group of people in their own deception irregardless of whether or not they realize it.
1. (non-pejoratively, uncommon use) Sharice is committed to protecting the environment, and if she has to drink the kool-aid to do so, then so be it.

2. (pejoratively, common use) Karen is so crazy that she's investing money in Sears and for some bizarre "reason" thinks that they will be "restored to their former glory." She's sure into drinking the kool-aid.

Drinking the Coffee 

Trying to fit in by doing something you don't normally do. Most commonly said when an individual pretends to like coffee at work to fit in with coworkers who are drinking it.
Joey: Why is Ryan acting like he knows about cars?

Christian: He's just 'drinking the coffee' to impress them.

drinking the kool-aide 

To blindly follow, or believe something or someone without even questioning the facts. Refusing to agknowledge the real truth. Believed to have connections to the Reverand Jimmy Jones cult that committed mass suicide by drinking kool-aide spiked with poison.
If they beleive that, they must be drinking the kool-aide.