English Explanatory Dictionary

name one's poison

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To indicate what type of alcoholic beverage one wishes to be served.

Pronunciation

En-au-name your poison.ogg

Word forms

name one's poison names one's poison naming one's poison named one's poison

Etymology

From the US prohibition era, when the government required that the base ingredients for many products have poisons added to them to make it harder for them to be distilled into alcohol. As a result, much of the prohibition alcohol was actually poison when not distilled completely or properly.

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