Read full poem →'Tis excellent to turn a thorn to a pin,
A fool to a bolt, a knave to a glass of gin."
Dictionary Entry
A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ginrummy ginbottle gingin cotton
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Poetry examples for “gin”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →: OL ympic 2
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Read full poem →The other cants and acts the hypocrite,
Smoothing the deed where law sharks set their gin
Like a coy dog to draw misfortune in.
Read full poem →Hobbles to fetch his horses from the moor:
Some busy ’gin to teem the loaded corn,
Which night throng’d round the barn’s becrowded door;
Read full poem →And God from out His care:
And the iron gin that waits for Sin
Had caught us in its snare.
Read full poem →We will praise de gracious Mastah.
Dat has gin us liberty;
An' we 'll shout ouah halleluyahs,
Read full poem →We do' want stragglers a-layin' 'roun' hyeah;
Let's gin him 'way to de big buggah-man;
I know he's hidin' erroun' hyeah right neah.