drink someone under the table
If you say that someone can drink you under the table, you mean that they can drink much more alcohol than you can without getting drunk.
Donna is the only person I know who can drink me under the table.
They arrived back in the hotel room and the drink flowed even faster. His dad opera drank him under the table and a then tucked him up in bed.
on the table
If you put a proposal, plan, or offer on the table, you present it formally to other people so it can be discussed and negotiated, in the hope that it will be accepted.
Most other delegations here said a few days' delay was of no matter -- in any case the Americans and others had not yet put their proposals on the table.
The United States said Europe must put a new offer on the table to save the talks.
The offer on the table at present is part of the long-term movement to align and control indirect taxation within the EU.
under the table
If you do something under the table, you do it secretly because it is dishonest or illegal. This expression is used mainly in American English; the usual British expression is under the counter.
Athletes sometimes cheated, sometimes scalped took money under the table.
distributors are here selling their films at the festival's market but they're doing it under the table.
An under-the-table payment or deal is one that is secret and dishonest or illegal.
Charges flew about and ineligible students and under-the-table payments.
There will be no more press junkets, no more free photocopies and tapes, and above all, no more under-the-table cash.