| 单词 | blue ruin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue ruin blue ruin n. slang (now archaic) gin (or occasionally some other spirit), esp. of poor quality; cf. mother's ruin n. at mother n.1 Compounds 5b. ΚΠ 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Blue ruin, gin. 1815 T. Moore Epist. from Tom Cribb in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 352/1 One swig of Blue Ruin is worth the whole lot! 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 101/2 This latter [sc. Potheen] I have tasted, as well as the English Blue-Ruin, and the Scotch Whisky. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 10/2 Blue ruin, bad booze. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 39 Blotto after divers tots of hell fire, red biddy, bull dog, blue ruin and creeping jenny. 2008 A. Gracie His Captive Lady 303 ‘Blue ruin,’ she said with a grin of rotting stumps. ‘Better'n muvver's milk for keepin' a baby quiet.’ < as lemmas |
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