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单词 a drop of the right sort
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a drop of the right sort
P3. colloquial and slang. the right sort: alcoholic drink, esp. gin; chiefly in a drop of the right sort; cf. Phrases 2(a).
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1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. xliv. 303 ‘What will you take to wash it down?’ ‘Vy, a drop of the right sort, if you have no objections, master’.
1843 Changes for Amer. Notes iii. 12/2 Three poor women of the working class entered this gin palace while we waited. ‘Please miss,’ said one to the smartly ringed and ringleted barmaid, ‘a quarten of the right sort, and a three-out’.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. v. 100 ‘That's a drop of the right sort, I can see,’ said Grandfer Cantle.
1916 E. Phillpotts Faith Tresilion xiii. 132 In he comes, as weak as a new-dropped calf, and I pour a drop of the right sort down his neck and set him on his pins again.
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