hitting the sauce

N.B. not to be confused with a sauce hitter, a noun and related term

verb: being a gas wholesaler/pundit, talking intellectual sounding nonsense about any given scientific discipline, without knowing much about said discipline

boy : Is barium chloride edible?

mother: how dare you Victor? talking such nonsense when you've been educated in one of the best private schools in the country? Please do us all a favor, stop hitting the sauce, all right? And if you're going to continue hitting the sauce like that, our relationship will start to hit the fan itself, and I'll kick you out of this house. I won't stand for it to have a pundit sauce hitter in my house.