Timeline for Is there any difference between "pour drinks" and "pour out drinks"?
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Hello Goodbye | US English speaker and have never heard that use of "pour out". | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @gidds You don't generally pour out the whole drink. Usually just one swallow's worth. Yes, it's a waste, and a mess, thus usually done outdoors. I'd file it in the same category with smashing a bottle of wine on a newly christened ship, only less expensive, as it's usually just a cheap beer. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 13:46 | comment | added | shawnt00 | Personally I would probably avoid "pour out" although I think you'll still be understood. One can "pour out" one's heart but the chances of confusion are pretty slim. I'm not convinced by the answers below. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 15:01 | vote | accept | Dmytro O'Hope | ||
| Jul 12, 2020 at 15:01 | vote | accept | Dmytro O'Hope | ||
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| Jul 12, 2020 at 14:49 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 11:52 | answer | added | matthias_code | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 2:23 | comment | added | Josh Grosso | US English speaker, can confirm what @Abion47 is saying. I’ve never actually seen a drink poured out (although I also don’t drink, which... might be why), but the phrase is well-recognizable. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 0:10 | comment | added | Abion47 | @gidds It's sometimes done indoors, though the ones doing it also usually clean it up afterward. Yeah, it can be wasteful, but the idea is that you've made sure you've "consumed" just as much drink as if the honored person had actually been there to drink it themselves. It's a "this one's for you" type of thing. If the people don't want to waste a good drink (or the bar owner doesn't want the mess) then they will just set aside a full glass/can/bottle/whatever to sit at one end of the table and it's eventually drunk or just dumped in the sink at the end of the night. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 20:13 | comment | added | Caius Jard | In this context I'd say pour the drinks | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 19:29 | comment | added | gidds | @Abion47 This is the first I've ever heard of that action — either it's not commonly done in the UK, or I've just led a sheltered life… (Isn't it rather wasteful? And presumably it's not done indoors?) | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 18:58 | comment | added | Abion47 | @gidds I'm a US English speaker. Here, "pouring out a drink" is the act of taking a drink and pouring it on the ground as a show of respect and remembrance for someone who couldn't be there to drink it (usually because they died or went off to war or something, also occasionally done in jest when someone gets married.) | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 16:57 | comment | added | SusanW | @gidds completely agree, UK here too. Seems the distinction is much stronger in US English. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | gidds | @Abion47 Where are you from? Your two cases would mean exactly the same to me. (I'm in the UK. But then, I'm not a regular pub-goer, and most of the distinctions in the answers seem a bit far-fetched to me…) | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1281921197932937218 | ||
| Jul 11, 2020 at 5:24 | answer | added | Criggie | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 3:12 | comment | added | Abion47 | One example: there's a big difference in connotation between "let's pour a drink for our friend" and "let's pour out a drink for our friend". The former seems like you are being generous and nice, whereas the latter implies that something incredibly sad happened. | |
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 20:16 | history | edited | Dmytro O'Hope | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 20:05 | vote | accept | Dmytro O'Hope | ||
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 19:50 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 19:13 | answer | added | kandyman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 19:11 | answer | added | EllieK | timeline score: 38 | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 18:07 | history | asked | Dmytro O'Hope | CC BY-SA 4.0 |