down the hatch

phrase

: into the throat and digestive system

I'd drink it, all of it, down the hatch, an entire quart of water.

—Raymond Carver

Examples of down the hatch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The heron dropped it to jab at it, presumably to kill it for good, then lifted her head up so her bill was pointing skyward, and down the hatch went the whole gopher. — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 20 July 2026

Once upon a time, a drink or two at a holiday party went down the hatch with no problems. — Maria Godoy, NPR, 8 Dec. 2025

But, 15 to 20 minutes after the milkshake had gone down the hatch, the researchers found another wave of dopamine in people’s brains. — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2018

Rhymes for down the hatch

• isopach
• attach
• bycatch
• despatch
• detach
• dispatch
• mismatch
• nuthatch
• potlatch
• bache
• batch
• brach