name one's poison

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

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

    习语

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.

来源：wiktionary