mug up
Example Sentences
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"Three or four mugfuls of that? I'm terrible."
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2022
"What does she mean?" whispered Johnny to Fay, rather abashed at having forgotten his manners in the satisfaction which three mugfuls of good milk had given him.
From The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School by Alcott, Louisa May
"I told him I didn't like your cider, and didn't take but two mugfuls; but he didn't believe a word I said."
From Little Grandfather by May, Sophie
In short you affect me as gulping down great mugfuls of experience, while I am sipping that compound out of a liqueur-glass not a quarter full.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
Hence, if he loved beer, one mugful would give him as much enjoyment while goin down, as forty mugfuls would ordinary persons.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters by Ward, Artemus
