| 单词 | six o'clock swill |
| 释义 | > as lemmassix o'clock swill b. six o'clock swill, the customary bout of hasty drinking in public houses at the end of the working day, occasioned by the former six-o'clock-closing regulations. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout > type of upsy Friese1590 boot-carouse1598 six o'clock swill1955 1951 A. Upfield New Shoe 93 It wanted ten minutes to the fatal hour of six, and the enforced National Swill was in full flood.] 1955 A. Ross Australia 55 81 This evening ritual, known amongst Australians as the ‘six o'clock swill’. 1961 F. Hardy Hard Way 73 The [prison] yard was filling steadily, mostly with drunks, and a few victims of the six o'clock swill. 1970 D. Horne Next Australia 160 The ‘six o'clock swill’ before the lavatory-tiled bars closed was one of the continuing tests of masculinity. < as lemmas |
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