hops-and-water

Updated: June 21, 2025

'But in good sooth, Master Micah, I am in sober earnest when I say that you are indeed wasting the years of your youth, when life is sparkling and clear, and that you will regret it when you have come to the flat and flavourless dregs of old age. 'There spoke the brewer, said Reuben; 'but indeed, Micah, my father is right, for all that he hath such a hops-and-water manner of putting it.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke: His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph,: Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734