| 释义 |
home-brewed, a.
[f. home n. 15 i.]
Brewed at home or for home consumption. absol. Home-brewed ale, etc. Also fig.
1754Connoisseur No. 26 ⁋4 Every hedge ale-house that promises good home-brewed. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 June, The sparkling beverage home-brewed from malt of my own making. 1815Scott Guy M. xxiv, Home-brewed ale of excellent quality. 1883J. Parker Tyne Ch. 107 What he called ‘real old English home-brewed’.
fig.1808‘C. Hogg’ Miss-led General 182 One Whitepot, a very good sort of a home-brewed general. 1894Law Times XCVII. 387/2 Sir Richard Malins..dispensed a home-brewed equity of his own. |