bathtub gin
Noun
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Noun
bathtub gin
- (idiomatic) Gin or a similar alcoholic beverage which is of very poor quality, as if made by a homebrewer in a bathtub.
- 1936 June 14, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NLJQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_SEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6833,5557617&dq=bathtub-gin&hl=en ‘Dates as Usual’]," Milwaukee Journal, p. 2 (retrieved 31 July 2013):
- Part of Dallman's "Three Blind Mice" parody follows:
- They called us donkey-braying cranks
- But all they gave to win our thanks
- Was bathtub gin and busted banks
- For twelve long years.
- Part of Dallman's "Three Blind Mice" parody follows:
- 1984 Dec. 30, Alvin Klein, "‘Brown Sugar’ Done to a Bubbling Turn ↗" (theatre review), New York Times (retrieved 31 July 2013):
- A 1976 Broadway hit, "Bubbling Brown Sugar" recreates the night life of the 1920s - when they drank "scotch in teacups" and bathtub gin.
- 2008 Dec. 5, "[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1864521_1864524_1864626,00.html Top 10 Prohibition Tales: Mortal Moonshine]," Time:
- It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin.
- 1936 June 14, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NLJQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_SEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6833,5557617&dq=bathtub-gin&hl=en ‘Dates as Usual’]," Milwaukee Journal, p. 2 (retrieved 31 July 2013):
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