0 a way of referring to gin (= a clear, strong alcoholic drink):
It is ten days since I've indulged in mother's ruin.
Women's taste for mother's ruin scandalised polite society.
They passed around a bottle of mother's ruin.
Mother's ruin is as apt a name for gin now as it was in the 18th century.
Gin has been known as Mother's Milk from the 1820s but later in the century it became known as Mother's Ruin.
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European
May 10, 2021
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Shimmer
mother's ruin
