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gin and itnoun British informal, datedA drink of gin and Italian vermouth: I can imagine him in a dinner suit, tinkling on a piano, and sipping a gin and it [mass noun]: a glass of gin and it...- I thought I'd been the perfect hostess till one of the dowagers asked for gin and It.
- He never did see much action outside the Pall Mall club, where his restorative gin and it was much appreciated.
- Elizabeth comes across as a cozy, deeply sympathetic creature with whom you'd love to have tea - or a gin and it - some day.
Origin 1930s: it being an abbreviation of Italian (in Italian vermouth). |