Basic Trope: Someone attempts to get rid of a drink somehow (such as by pouring it out) without anyone else noticing.
- Straight: At Beth's party, Alice is given a drink, but she doesn't like it. Instead of pouring it out in front of everyone, she goes outside and pours it out.
- Exaggerated: Alice pours out a whole bunch of drinks without anyone noticing.
- Downplayed:
- Alice doesn't want to pour out the drink, but tries to give the rest of it to her friend Bob instead without anyone else noticing.
- Conwoman Alice pours her drinks into a bottle while getting her marks drunk. After the con is complete, she then drinks the drinks to celebrate the successful con.
- Justified:
- Alice didn't like the drink, but doesn't want to cause any hard feelings by pouring it out right in the open.
- Alice saw someone Slipping a Mickey into her drink, and decided to find a way to get rid of the drink without anyone seeing.
- Alice slipped something into everyone's drinks, including her own, and wanted to pretend they were safe to drink.
- Alice is The Teetotaler and the drink is alcoholic. Beth believes that not getting drunk at parties is practically an insult to her hospitality, as it means you weren't enjoying yourself, so she plays along.
- Alice is actively allergic to something in the drink and Beth either forgot or wasn't told, but it would still be rude to discard it in the open.
- Inverted:
- Alice tries to discreetly ask for a drink.
- Alice tries to discreetly throw out food.
- Alice draws attention to herself as she pours the drink down Beth's kitchen sink.
- Alice secretly refills her drink, to keep up the fiction that she "only had one drink".
- Subverted: Alice doesn't like the drink she gets, but she puts up a brave face and nurses it instead.
- Double Subverted: She can't keep it up and eventually pours it down one of the drains in the bathroom.
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- Averted:
- Nobody disposes of drinks.
- Alice just pours out her drink in front of everyone.
- Alice declines the drink, or makes it clear ahead of time that she does want one.
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- Implied: Claire tries to poison Alice, but when Alice is taken to the hospital she recovers awfully quickly, meaning that she feigned the symptoms to get out of danger.
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