| 单词 | to go or vote wet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go or vote wet c. Originally and chiefly U.S. Permitting the sale of alcoholic liquor: accepting or adhering to this as a principle; opposed to the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Hence as quasi-adv. in to go or vote wet. Cf. dry adj. 11a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [adjective] > permitting wet1871 the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (intransitive)] > permit liquor to go or vote wet1871 1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 63 Dry or wet, Mr. Dort? Indifferent, eh? Adolph, a hock-glass. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. liv. 350 Some States, e.g. Georgia, have adopted a local option system, under which each county decides whether it will be ‘wet’ or ‘dry’ (e.g. [sic] permit or forbid the sale of intoxicants). 1888 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 3 Apr. 1/1 Forty-nine counties have voted ‘dry’, and thirty-three ‘wet’... Thirteen of twenty towns went ‘dry’, and seven ‘wet’. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 12/1 A map of the United States, with prohibition States white, licence States black, and States partly ‘dry’ and partly ‘wet’ under local option indicated by shading. 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill 36 Like a cow~hand with three month's pay hitting a wet town. 1954 K. Amis Lucky Jim 109 The still recent tradition of a ‘wet’ Summer Ball. 1974 Times 7 Oct. 4/1 Flintshire, Radnorshire, Breconshire..voted to go wet. 1974 Times 7 Oct. 4/2 That poll ended the curious situation of one inn which straddled on the wet-dry border... The public bar was dry and empty, but the lounge bar was wet and crowded. < as lemmas |
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