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Adam's ale

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Adam's ale, wine
n
Old-fashioned jocular water
[from the name of the first man to appear in the Old Testament]
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I imagine I'm not alone in wondering why these rain-sodden islands should be running short of Adam's Ale.
Why are our soggy isles running dry? by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
I was willing to accept the moral and environmental arguments against drinking bottled water in a country where we're never short of a wee tot of Adam's Ale.
HYPOCRISY BLEW MESSAGE OUT OF THE WATER; Panorama: Bottled Water - ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
It might be called Waterhouse Street, but there is not a drop to drink of Adam's ale, or indeed corporation pop for Miss Bond and Mrs Beckett, as their beleaguered house was left high and dry during Everton slumclearance, 40 years ago in January, 1967.
LOOKING BACK by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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