liquid sunshine

Noun

liquid sunshine (uncountable)

1. A beverage that is fluorescent or irradiated, believed to have medicinal properties.
   • "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
   • 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
2. (slang) 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
3. (slang) LSD in liquid form.
4. (ironic) Rain.
   • 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