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Itasan
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Post by Itasan » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:01 am

IWAIZAKE (celebration SAKe) is 'sake (or alcoholic drink) drunk
in celebration of some event or someone' in Japanese.
I wonder if there is any similar simple term
in English.

Thank you.
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eslweb
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Let's not make it too complicated...

Post by eslweb » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:59 am

In English we normally say something like:

Let's have a celebratory drink
celebratory beer

Champagne is traditionally associated with celebration, so any mention of opening a bottle of champagne is likely to be part of a celebration...

James
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Itasan
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Post by Itasan » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:31 am

Let's have a celebratory drink
celebratory beer

Great! Thank you very much, James.
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