(NYPost) - Benjamin Franklin knew more than 200 “round-about phrases” for drunk — and famously catalogued them for “sober” readers in his 1737 “Drinker’s Dictionary.”

But for someone who is thought to have proclaimed, “There cannot be good living where there is no good drinking,” Franklin wasn’t much of a boozehound — at least not by Founding Father standards.

They founded America — a country founded on booze — and they all enjoyed a tipple or two.

“If you were president, you drank much better stuff, not some swill some guy down the road made,” says Mark Will-Weber, author of “Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking.”

“Especially with people like Washington and Jefferson and Adams. These guys were fairly refined.”

 

 

George Washington appreciated porters. Thomas Jefferson favored French wines. John Adams savored cider.