tonsil paint
tonsil paint
dated slang Liquor, especially cheap whiskey. The hard-boiled detective sat sipping tonsil paint at the seedy dive bar, waiting for his informant to arrive. Give the man some tonsil paint to deaden the pain till a doctor can be fetched.
See also: paint, tonsil
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
tonsil paint
and tonsil varnish n. liquor; whiskey. The cowboy had to have his daily dose of tonsil paint before he stuffed his face full of beans and hardtack. This tonsil varnish would take the paint off a barn.
See also: paint, tonsil
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- tonsil varnish
- tonsil bath
- stogy
- stogie
- stog
- woofle-water
- wozzle
- wozzle-water
- schoolboy scotch
- neck oil