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Drink fuddled old boy, joining wrong army
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bloody mary
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka , tomato juice , and combinations of other spices and flavorings including Worcestershire sauce , Tabasco sauce , piri piri sauce, beef consommé or bouillon , horseradish , celery , olives , salt , black pepper ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the cocktail, attested from 1953 (originally touted in part as a hangover cure), said to be named for Mary Tudor, queen of England 1553-58, who earned her epithet for vigorous prosecution of Protestants. The drink earned its, apparently, simply for being ...
Usage examples of bloody mary.
Queen Bloody Mary Tudor had sent the Spaniard as a spy for the Inquisition after Raven had contacted her with information about the Pendragon.
During the Dissolution, they had been faithful papists, and following the rise of Bloody Mary, they had somehow become staunch Protestants.
Girl to Ponce:-Go along, you bloody Mary Ann, and tighten your arse-hole with alum.
Two years before Charles abdicated - in 1544 - Philip had married the queen of England, Mary Tudor - later to become known as Bloody Mary.
Nim gulped at his bloody mary, which had arrived while he was talking.
Rupert, however, rolled up at The Priory in the highest spirits the following evening to find Declan still surrounded by tapes and Basil Baddingham sitting on the edge of his desk drinking a Bloody Mary and discussing tactics.