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liquid sunshine en · NOUN

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  1. (uncountable) A beverage that is fluorescent or irradiated, believed to have medicinal properties.
    • Five glasses a day of what was known as liquid sunshine would 'increase your income by keeping you and your family fit. 2010, Rose Shapiro, Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All, →ISBN, page 111:
    • In the meantime save that thirst to quench it in LIQUID SUNSHINE. 1919, The Northwestern Druggist: A Progressive Journal for Retail Druggists, Volume 27, page 145:
    • "He has found that the rays do not penetrate fluorescent fluids, or liquid sunshine as they are sometimes called. 1904, The Medical Standard - Volume 27, page 339:
  2. (slang, uncountable) An alcoholic beverage that is particularly smooth and tasty.
    • He left a bad taste in my mind, let me have another good gulp of this liquid sunshine here with my bird's wing. 1990, Thomas Mann, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, →ISBN, page 351:
    • The wine was worthy to be celebrated in classic verse; none so good is, I am sure, made elsewhere in Syria ; it was liquid sunshine; and as it was manufactured by the monks, it gave us a new respect for their fastidious taste. 2002, Charles Dudley Warner, In the Levant - Volume 1, →ISBN, pages 199–200:
    • Even if it was liquid sunshine it would've tasted like piss, the situation I'm in. 2007, Torsten Krol, Callisto, →ISBN, page 314:
  3. (slang, uncountable) LSD in liquid form.
  4. (ironic, uncountable) Rain.
    • “You certainly would," Amber said, “if the builder hadn't taken our liquid sunshine into account." She pushed a switch on the outside wall. A clear plastic building began to unfold onto the arbor's structure. 2010, Stephen Arterburn, Mike Moscoe, The Forsaken, →ISBN, page 91:
    • So it was out and away to the road, place the call, punch a bunch of buttons ("To transfer funds, Press 9") in the liquid sunshine, while adjusting an umbrella to improve reception. 2008, Lynne Farr, Off the Grid Without a Paddle, →ISBN, page 39:
    • I'm in my tent on the shores of the beautiful Pacific, listening to the plentiful supply of liquid sunshine coming down. 2009, Frederick E. LaCroix, The Sky Rained Heroes: A Journey from War to Remembrance, →ISBN, page 205: