If she needed to drown her sorrows, he could only blame himself.
It's the sound of someone drowning his sorrows in metaphors.
I went out and tried to drown my sorrows in drink.
The others encourage him to drown his sorrows in wine.
I hope you are not drowning your sorrows on his account.
There were a lot of people in tonight, drowning their sorrows.
But it will do as well to drown our sorrows.
"But he never did, so I would drown my sorrows."
True, he could drown his sorrows, as the saying went, but there was a heavy price to pay.
A few hours to drown his sorrows before they left.
Idiome