liquid sunshine

noun

A beverage that is fluorescent or irradiated, believed to have medicinal properties.

Meanings

nounliquid sunshine (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA beverage that is fluorescent or irradiated, believed to have medicinal properties.

    In the meantime save that thirst to quench it in LIQUID SUNSHINE.

    1919, The Northwestern Druggist: A Progressive Journal for Retail Druggists, Volume 27, page 145
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    "He has found that the rays do not penetrate fluorescent fluids, or liquid sunshine as they are sometimes called.

    1904, The Medical Standard - Volume 27, page 339

    Five glasses a day of what was known as liquid sunshine would 'increase your income by keeping you and your family fit.

    2010, Rose Shapiro, Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All, →ISBN, page 111
  2. slanguncountableAn alcoholic beverage that is particularly smooth and tasty.

    Even if it was liquid sunshine it would've tasted like piss, the situation I'm in.

    2007, Torsten Krol, Callisto, →ISBN, page 314
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    He left a bad taste in my mind, let me have another good gulp of this liquid sunshine here with my bird's wing.

    1990, Thomas Mann, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, →ISBN, page 351

    The wine was worthy to be celebrated in classic verse; none so good is, I am sure, made elsewhere in Syria ; it was liquid sunshine; and as it was manufactured by the monks, it gave us a new respect for their fastidious taste.

    2002, Charles Dudley Warner, In the Levant - Volume 1, →ISBN, pages 199–200
  3. slanguncountableLSD in liquid form.
  4. ironicuncountableRain.

    I'm in my tent on the shores of the beautiful Pacific, listening to the plentiful supply of liquid sunshine coming down.

    2009, Frederick E. LaCroix, The Sky Rained Heroes: A Journey from War to Remembrance, →ISBN, page 205
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    So it was out and away to the road, place the call, punch a bunch of buttons ("To transfer funds, Press 9") in the liquid sunshine, while adjusting an umbrella to improve reception.

    2008, Lynne Farr, Off the Grid Without a Paddle, →ISBN, page 39

    “You certainly would," Amber said, “if the builder hadn't taken our liquid sunshine into account." She pushed a switch on the outside wall. A clear plastic building began to unfold onto the arbor's structure.

    2010, Stephen Arterburn, Mike Moscoe, The Forsaken, →ISBN, page 91

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