Possible Clues:

• Start talk holding one drink
• Start to speak about current trap
• Start to hold forth over a single shot of the hard stuff
• Create
• Begin to speak pompously, having swallowed one drink
• Consumed after 'beginning the begin'
• Start with one soldier, about to get decorated
• The alternative to a drink, one had some food for a start
• Start to speak about the single trap
• That's enough to give one a start (9)