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
The new songs by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn are tepid at best, and Joe Layton's dance interludes are as spurious as bathtub gin, introduced solely to juice up a weak scenario.
From Time Magazine Archive
But all these excellent efforts are lost in the general effort to bring the '20s up to date � an attempt about as sensible in 1954 as mixing bathtub gin.
From Time Magazine Archive
