Citations:ABC

English citations of ABC

anything but Chardonnay

• 2005 Barbara Nowak, "The Everything Wine Book"

  ABC "Anything but Chardonnay." You've probably heard the mantra. Chardonnay is ubiquitous. Some would say boring.

• 2006 Jancis Robinson, "The Oxford companion to wine"

  ABC, acronym for the weary sentiment 'Anything But Chardonnay (or Cabernet)' which encouraged interest in grapes other than the (two most famous) International Varieties on the part of both producers and consumers.

(historical, baseball) A member of the Negro league baseball team Indianapolis ABCs.

• 1997, Paul Debono, The Indianapolis ABCs: History of a Premier Team in the Negro Leagues, McFarland & Company, published 2007, →ISBN, page 139:

  Dismukes is said to have been instrumental in getting Jackie Robinson to sign with the Monarchs in 1945. He became one of the very few ABCs to be paid by a major league baseball team when he became a scout for the New York Yankees in 1953–54 and the Chicago White Sox in 1955–56.