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Care for a drink? Willingly! (4,1,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

like a shot

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'willingly' is the definition.
(to do something like a shot is to do it willingly)

'care for a drink?' is the wordplay.
'care' becomes 'like' (synonyms).
'for a drink?' becomes 'ashot' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'like'+'ashot'='LIKE A SHOT'

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(Other definitions for like a shot that I've seen before include "enthusiastically?" , "Enjoy a wee dram" , "What spirit drinkers do" , "sluggish?" , "straightaway?" .)

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