try to keep up

In my business life I did a lot of drinking after hours. Now retired, I still try to keep up.

dietary concern

He wondered if wine counted as a fruit in one’s diet?

in a better world

The liquor stores should sell milk and bread. So a person with a family could stop once instead of twice.

glass half empty

Tip it, but sip it slow.

hard liquor

It was the kind of country where the water was just fine, but the admonition was, “Don’t drink the hooch.”