Tete in a tub

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  • A Tale of a Tub: an allegorical work by Jonathan Swift satirizing religious extremism
  • tête: (French) head
    • Joseph Addison’s The Spectator, number 94, refers to a story from a 1708 volume entitled Turkish Tales about a sultan who plunges his head in a tub of water and pulls it out to find himself in a strange land where he is forced to earn his living and start a new life. A part of the story appears in Dickens’ Hard Times, Book II, chapter 1.
  • Bathtub gin: illegally distilled home brew popular during prohibition; in connection to the previous reference to yeast and later to evaporation and Guinness.
  • toe in a tub: test the temperature of the water by first sticking in one's toe