gin's piss

gin's piss
A poor quality beer. (Reference: , Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.)

May you take a swig of gin’s piss, mistaking it for beer, — The Bastard from the Bush, traditional bawdy Australian poem [ attributed perhaps to , eg. [ slightly doubtful about the value of this one as a quotation, it shows the connection with beer, but is perhaps closer to being a literal use of the phrase


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