liquid bread

Noun

liquid bread (uncountable)

1. (slang) Synonym of beer.
   • “The well-known Dr. Kitchener,” however, has discovered, that homebrewed beer is “liquid bread.”1841, “To the Rev. Mortlock Daniell of Ramsgate”, in The New British and Foreign Temperance Magazine, page 231
   • As “liquid bread” (see Schiefenhovel and Macbeth 2011), the nutritional benefits of beer are commendable, with barley-beer containing more B vitamins and the essential amino acid lysine than barley bread.2015, Kaori O'Connor, The Never-ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting

   Synonyms:

   beer