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*'''Bathtub gin:''' illegally distilled home brew popular during prohibition; in connection to the previous reference to yeast and later to evaporation and Guinness. | *'''Bathtub gin:''' illegally distilled home brew popular during prohibition; in connection to the previous reference to yeast and later to evaporation and Guinness. | ||
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Revision as of 09:06, 1 June 2019
- A Tale of a Tub: an allegorical work by Jonathan Swift satirizing religious extremism
- tête: (French) head
- 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
