| 单词 | flash of lightning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflash of lightning b. slang. flash of lightning: a glass of gin. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > a drink of flash of lightning1789 spencer1804 streak of lightning1839 gin1922 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 164 Flash of lightning, a glass of gin. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 34 That fashionable liquor called flashes of lightning. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford II. iv. 112 The thunders of eloquence being hushed, flashes of lightning, or, as the vulgar say ‘glasses of gin’ gleamed about. < as lemmas |
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