hard liquor

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.

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• alcohol
• booze
• liqueur
• liquor
• wine