The New Year is traditionally a time when people make resolutions (for example, to give up smoking). It's also a time when cartoonists draw cartoons about people making resolutions (see collection here). This one is by Banx, the award-winning British cartoonist whose gags appear daily in the Financial Times.
The cartoon should be easy enough to understand - the man was drunk when he made his resolution to give up drinking, which is why he is still drinking.
1. If you say that someone drinks, you mean they drink alcohol (usually on a regular basis). • Don't drink and drive. • He doesn't drink.
2. If someone is drunk, they've drunk so much alcohol that it is impossible for them to think or speak clearly. • She was too drunk to remember anything about the party.
3. If you give up something or give up doing something, you stop doing it. • Rob Ford says he's given up alcohol and won't drink again.
4. After making a New Year's Resolution, you can either keep it (or stick to it), or break it. • I try hard to keep my New Year's Resolutions, but usually end up breaking them before the end of January.
Check out this New Year Resolutions lesson based on the opening scenes of the movie Bridget Jones's Diary.