飲のむ打うつ買かう

noun

drinking, gambling, and buying women (in prostitution)

A set phrase listing three classic vices, often used to describe a dissolute lifestyle or the temptations that lead a man to ruin. The phrase is fixed and not used as a productive verb combination.

• 彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、飲のむ打うつ買かうの放ほう蕩とう生せい活かつを送おくっていた。

  In his youth, he led a dissolute life of drinking, gambling, and buying women.

• 「飲のむ打うつ買かう」は、男おとこをダメにする三さん大だい悪あく癖へきと言いわれる。

  Drinking, gambling, and buying women are said to be the three great vices that ruin a man.