He'd always been able to hold his liquor, but lately he seemed to be holding too much of it.
"You folks from the future can sure hold your liquor."
Although he was usually competent in holding his liquor, last night things had gotten out of hand.
Illness or the inability to hold your liquor, it makes no difference to me.
Some of them couldn't hold their liquor and threw up.
So I should have been able to hold my liquor better.
He can hold his liquor, as we like to say.
I seem to remember he was the kind of chap who could hold his liquor, as they say in the movies.
He couldn't hold his liquor for one thing, and had been retired from the Circuit earlier than usual.
He was a solidly built man, and one who could apparently hold his liquor.
Idiome