To eat dregs and drink thin wine, often implying an indulgence in intoxication or simple, coarse pleasures; metaphorically, to compromise one's principles and conform to vulgarity, or to simply go with the flow, often implying a lack of ambition or a willingness to accept mediocrity.
他本有远大抱负，却在生活的压力下，渐渐餔糟歠醨，变得随波逐流。
He originally had grand ambitions, but under the pressures of life, he gradually compromised his ideals and went with the flow.
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