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12-ounce curlsThe activity of drinking beer.Rate it:

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12-ounce curlsDrinking beer.Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.Rate it:

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amber nectarLager beer.Rate it:

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barrelA tube.Rate it:

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barrelThe ribs and belly of a horse or pony.Rate it:

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barrelThe hollow basal part of a feather.Rate it:

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barrelA wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.Rate it:

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barrelA waste receptacle.Rate it:

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barrelA solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case.Rate it:

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barrelA round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.Rate it:

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barrelA metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.Rate it:

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barrelA jar. 1 Kings xvii. 12.Rate it:

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barrelThe 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:

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barrel of laughsThat which is enjoyable or entertaining.Rate it:

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barrel of laughsThat which is immature, embarrassing, or disgraceful.Rate it:

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barrel of laughsA toy in the shape of a barrel that emits sounds of laughter.Rate it:

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barrel of monkeysSomething very funny or amusing.Rate it:

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bblAbbreviation of barrel, notably for oil.Rate it:

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beer and skittlesFun times.Rate it:

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beer and skittlesSomething pleasurable.Rate it:

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beer gogglesThe illusion that people are more attractive, brought on by alcohol consumption.Rate it:

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beer musclesAn aggressive attitude resulting from consumption of an alcoholic beverage.Rate it:

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beer musclesA protruding stomach, supposedly indicative of excessive consumption of beer.Rate it:

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brass monkeyAn Australian beer.Rate it:

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breakfast of championsAn ironic appellation for beer, junk food, or other foods implied to be unhealthy.Rate it:

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ce n'est pas tous les jours fête1. Christmas comes but once a year. 2. One cannot always have “a high old time,” but must work as well. 3. Life is not all beer and skittles.Rate it:

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ce verre de bière m'a coupé les jambesMy legs feel shaky after that glass of beer.Rate it:

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champagne taste on a beer budgetExpensive wants or preferences which one lacks the finances to fulfill satisfactorily.Rate it:

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cold oneA beer.Rate it:

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cry in one's beerTo feel sorry for oneself; to feel sadness or regret, especially in combination with self-pity.Rate it:

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German goiterA protruding stomach, especially one supposed to be indicative of excessive consumption of beer.Rate it:

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German goitreA protruding stomach, especially one supposed to be indicative of excessive consumption of beer.Rate it:

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ginger beersoft drinkRate it:

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gottle o' geerImitating a ventriloquist's attempt at "bottle of beer", a phrase traditionally supposed to be difficult for ventriloquists to say.Rate it:

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half-pintHalf a pint of beer.Rate it:

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hold my beerI am about to do something crazy or difficult.Rate it:

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il se croit le premier moutardier du papeHe thinks no small beer of himself.Rate it:

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kangaroo pissBeer, especially of inferior quality.Rate it:

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life is not all beer and skittlesNot everything about life is pleasurable.Rate it:

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life's not all skittles and beerSkittles and Beer refers to the carefree, indulgent bar life; skittles being a British pub game. Thus, life's not all skittles and beer means that not everything is about pleasure.Rate it:

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like shooting fish in a barrelTo imply that something is very easy. Can be used sarcastically to mean the oppositeRate it:

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like shooting fish in a barrelExtremely easy.Rate it:

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lock, stock and barrelA thing in its entirety, with nothing omitted.Rate it:

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Lock, Stock, and BarrelTo mean the whole thingRate it:

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no more cakes and ale?Cakes an ale are similar to "the good life", such as beer and skittles.Rate it:

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over a barrelIn a disadvantageous or helpless situation, in which one may be controlled or victimized.Rate it:

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Over a BarrelIn a helpless position, in a dilemma, at someone’s mercyRate it:

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palmed the ticketSharpie' kept his ticket, volunteered to 'Draw the Winning Ticket', reached into the barrel and withdrew his own 'winning ticket': It happened at the 'Marvin'' theater:Rate it:

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powder kegA barrel containing gunpowder.Rate it:

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