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blue ruin

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blue ruin (uncountable)

1. (slang, now archaic) Low-end gin, usually home-made.
   • 1985, Tom Waits, "9th and Hennepin"
     ‘Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin’
   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘King Pest’:
     ‘tell us who the devil ye all are, and what business ye have here, rigged off like the foul fiends, and swilling the snug blue ruin stowed away for the winter by my honest shipmate, Will Wimble the undertaker!’
   • 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford Ch. XVI:
     ‘As soon as this "sentiment" had been duly drunk, and Mr. Bagshot had dried his tears and applied himself to his favourite drink,--which, by the way, was **"blue ruin,"**--the work of division took place.’
2. Complete and utter ruin, desolation.
   • 1934, Philip Gibbs, European journey‎, p. 116:
     "It's blue ruin." He laughed for the third time. I notice that people always laugh when they prophesy blue ruin.

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