Jeden Freitagabend gaben sie sich die Kante.

English Translation

Every Friday night they went and got liquored up.

strange expression, have read that this began as ‘gaben sie sich die Kanne’…

In case anyone does not know: “sich die Kante geben” is an idiom for getting really drunk.

You’re apparently not too far off :slight_smile:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/die_Kante_geben

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