Signing the pledge
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- signing the pledge: a formal promise to stop drinking alcohol. Joyce, Dubliners, "The Boarding House": "It was no use making him take the pledge: he was sure to break out again a few days after."
- After 1798 public houses were required to display clocks, with the result that anyone wanting a drink would often just say that he wanted to find out the time. (see By cock's luck)
