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make a rabbit bite a bulldog en · X

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  1. (colloquial) Said of very strong or plentiful alcoholic drink.
    • It was strong enough to make a rabbit bite a bulldog. The best rum was distilled from sugarcane juice and was especially strong and pungent to the taste. 2018, Selby Parker, Scopophilia, page 142:
    • Fix it pretty strong, will you? Not too much water and about the amount of whisky that would make a rabbit bite a bulldog. 1924, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 3, in Bill the Conqueror, His Invasion of England in the Springtime: