gin-and-fog

Updated: June 25, 2025

You give 'im socks," remarked a hoarse and rather indistinct voice of the gin-and-fog variety, from among the spectators. Simultaneously its owner lurched his way to the front rank, the others making room for him with that respectful sympathy, not unmixed with envy, which is always accorded to a true-born Briton in his condition.

Ian Hay - The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton