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"my last request is to spend eternity drinking wine with god."	Wine God	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cask wine	Used other than as an idiom: see cask, wine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cask wine	Wine that is sealed in a plastic bladder and packaged in a cardboard box.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
good wine needs no bush	Something good does not need to be advertised	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
new wine in old wineskins	New policies put into established ones.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
we will have no wine before it's time	Some things are worth the wait and should not be rushed.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wine merchant	vintner	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wine tosser	A person who buys wine, but does not drink it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wine tosser	A person who talks a great deal about wine but actually knows very little.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
“failure is bringing the wine and forgetting the glass, depression is forgetting the corkscrew."	Wine	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
“wine was the grape that wanted to be different.”	Wine	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tread out	To press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
vieil ami et vieux vin sont vraiment deux bons vieux, mais vieux écus sont encore mieux	Old friends and old wine are good, but old gold is better than both.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
boire sec	To drink hard; To drink wine neat (without adding water).	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
à bon vin point d'enseigne	Good wine needs no bush.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
barrel	The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 1/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
BYOW	Initialism of bring your own wine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cinq à sept	afternoon get-together similar to a happy hour, cocktail party, or wine and cheese, held approximately between 5 and 7 p.m.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
du vin à faire danser les chèvres	Sour wine not fit to drink.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
feed a cold, starve a fever	Eating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever.1887, J. H. Whelan, "The Treatment of Colds.", The Practitioner, vol. 38, pg. 180:"Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.1968, Katinka Loeser, The Archers at Home, publ. Atheneum, New York, pg. 60:I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.2009, Shelly Reuben, Tabula Rasa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 015101079X, pg. 60:They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
goûtez-moi ce vin; vous m'en direz des nouvelles (fam.)	You just taste this wine, you don’t get wine like that every day; What do you think of that for wine, my boy?	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il a fait ses affaires dans les vins	He made his money in the wine trade.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mad dog	Nickname of a popular wine with the initials "MD".	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on nous donna du vin à discrétion	They gave us as much wine as we wanted (wine ad libitum).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui a bu n'a point de secrets	When wine sinks, words swim; In vino veritas; Drink washes off the daub, and discovers the man; What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tremper son vin	To water one’s wine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
un doigt de vin (fam.)	A toothful of wine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
un verre de vin avise bien un homme	A glass of wine puts wit into a man.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
votre vin est trop catholique	Your wine is too weak, (i.e. baptised with water).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vous y connaissez-vous en vins?	Are you a judge of wine?	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)