mother's ruin
noun [ U ] UK informal uk/ˌmʌð.əz ˈruː.ɪn/ us/ˌmʌð.ɚz ˈruː.ɪn/
杜松子酒
a way of referring to gin (= a clear, strong alcoholic drink)
It is ten days since I've indulged in mother's ruin. 我沉迷于杜松子酒已经十天了。
Women's taste for mother's ruin scandalised polite society. 女人对杜松子酒的喜爱让上流社会大为不满。
- More examples
- They passed around a bottle of mother's ruin.
- Mother's ruin is as apt a name for gin now as it was in the 18th century.
- Gin has been known as Mother's Milk from the 1820s but later in the century it became known as Mother's Ruin.