liquid sunshine

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Noun

liquid sunshine (uncountable)

1. A beverage that is fluorescent or irradiated, believed to have medicinal properties.
   • 1904, The Medical Standard - Volume 27, page 339:

     "He has found that the rays do not penetrate fluorescent fluids, or liquid sunshine as they are sometimes called.

   • 1919, The Northwestern Druggist: A Progressive Journal for Retail Druggists, Volume 27, page 145:

     In the meantime save that thirst to quench it in LIQUID SUNSHINE.

   • 2010, Rose Shapiro, Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All, →ISBN, page 111:

     Five glasses a day of what was known as liquid sunshine would 'increase your income by keeping you and your family fit.

2. An alcoholic beverage that is particularly smooth and tasty.
   • 1990, Thomas Mann, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, →ISBN, page 351:

     He left a bad taste in my mind, let me have another good gulp of this liquid sunshine here with my bird's wing.

   • 2002, Charles Dudley Warner, In the Levant - Volume 1, →ISBN, pages 199–200:

     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.

   • 2007, Torsten Krol, Callisto, →ISBN, page 314:

     Even if it was liquid sunshine it would've tasted like piss, the situation I'm in.

3. (ironic) Rain.
   • 2008, Lynne Farr, Off the Grid Without a Paddle, →ISBN, page 39:

     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.

   • 2009, Frederick E. LaCroix, The Sky Rained Heroes: A Journey from War to Remembrance, →ISBN, page 205:

     I'm in my tent on the shores of the beautiful Pacific, listening to the plentiful supply of liquid sunshine coming down.

   • 2010, Stephen Arterburn, Mike Moscoe, The Forsaken, →ISBN, page 91:

     “You certainly would," Amber said, “if the builder hadn't taken our liquid sunshine into account." She pushed a switch on the outside wall. A clear plastic building began to unfold onto the arbor's structure.