tonsil varnish
tonsil varnish
dated slang Liquor, especially cheap whiskey. The hard-boiled detective sat sipping tonsil varnish at the seedy dive bar, waiting for his informant to arrive. Give the man some tonsil varnish to deaden the pain till a doctor can be fetched.
See also: tonsil, varnish
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
tonsil varnish
verbSee tonsil paint
See also: tonsil, varnish
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- tonsil paint
- tonsil bath
- stogy
- stogie
- stog
- woofle-water
- wozzle
- wozzle-water
- schoolboy scotch
- neck oil