English term
couple of fifths
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Japan
Scientia est potentia
Native in: Japanese 
Works in: English to Japanese, German to Japanese, Italian to Japanese, and 3 more.
couple of 1/5 of gallon of liquor
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Note added at 6 mins (2015-04-23 08:26:36 GMT)
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3. One fifth of a gallon or four fifths of a quart of liquor.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fifth
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Tony M
: i.e. full-size bottles (likely of whisky, etc.)
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Thank you very much, Tony!
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Jack Doughty
15 mins
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Thank you very much, Jack!
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Yvonne Gallagher
48 mins
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Thank you very much!
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Eckhard Boehle
1 hr
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Thank you very much!
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Sheri P
2 hrs
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Thank you very much!
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Heather Walker (X)
: I agree, but I'd like to add that saying "I'm getting a fifth" is more like saying "I'm getting a bottle." I would translate it as bottle.
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Thank you very much for your comment.
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: I agree 100% with Heather. A 'fifth' is an old unit of measure.
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Phong Le
5 days
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two 0.2 of a (US) gallon (about 0.75l) bottles of liquor (high-alcohol content drink, 'spirits')
These are very close in size to the 0.75 (sometimes 0.7) litre standard spirit and wine bottle sold elsewhere, while a quart will be comparable to the 1 litre ('large') bottle.
Discussion
But http://forum.wordreference.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6 might be more appropriate.
ProZ isn't really for reader assistance but I wouldn't mind helping occasionally. But I'd hate to think we were helping someone who is totally out of their depth in a translation project :-( Of course, multiple user identities are banned on ProZ (not that I'm saying this is the case here).
And yes, it's a more interesting text than the norm!