bathtub gin
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At 90 minutes, that night is brief, maybe too brief, and feels less like an immersive soak in Prohibition New York than a slug of bathtub gin.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
But if social media are any gauge , dancing at home is the coronavirus pandemic’s bathtub gin.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2020
Churchwell fills out her account with amusing period paraphernalia, such as Fitzgerald's recipe for bathtub gin, or a list of the era's new terminology: "cool", "slick", "mass media", "ritzy", "merchant bank".
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013
It bears the date and the outdatedness of the '20s, along with such storied fossils as bathtub gin, the Black Bottom and the Stutz Bearcat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, their brash, high-stepping music lives on, as key a piece of Americana as flappers, bathtub gin and Calvin Coolidge's Indian headdress--and twice as much fun.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
