name one's poison

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To indicate what type of alcoholic beverage one wishes to be served. idiomatic

词形变化

names one's poison present,singular,third-person naming one's poison participle,present named one's poison participle,past named one's poison past

词源

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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