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Idioms and Phrases

Distilled alcoholic beverages, such as gin or whiskey. For example, We're serving wine and beer but no hard liquor . The hard here refers to their high alcoholic content, which is also true for hard cider , although the latter is not distilled but has simply fermented.
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Example Sentences

They started with organic sodas, then beer and wine, now they are moving on to hard liquor.

Note also that Americans are moderating the way they use alcohol, shifting away from hard liquor etc.

And the amount of hard liquor consumed on election days and county court days was also a deterrent.

Men who formerly drank to excess have sobered up, against their will, for lack of cash or lack of chance to buy hard liquor.

He accused him of avoiding hard liquor and teased him because he could read and spoke like an educated man.

Let hard liquor crouch and tremble in its rathskeller below the sidewalk!

Hard liquor has no place on the refreshment list of a class whose life is dependent on a clear brain and a sure hand and foot.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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