hitting the bottle

District Court in Connecticut, where he agreed to be extradited to Vermont, he admitted he was still hitting the bottle.

Yet like her first two albums — 2016’s “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter” and 2017’s “All American Made,” which led to a Grammy nomination for best new artist — “Rumors” places private struggles in a broader social context; it’s a record about hitting the bottle and about staying too long in a dead-end relationship that’s also a record about sexism and income inequality.

He was able to sustain the sobriety for one month but went right back to hitting the bottle on the thirty-first day, the article said.

Jail Warden Jeff Gromer says a man holding a glass bottle approached the jail lobby and was hitting the bottle against the lobby window when security asked for police help.

But he found himself asking this question: "I've come out, but why am I still hitting the bottle? Why am I still not wanting to go to sleep?"