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

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

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