liquid bread

English

Etymology

From being a liquid made from the ingredients used to make bread (grain, yeast, water).

Noun

liquid bread (uncountable)

1. (slang) Synonym of beer
   • 1841, “To the Rev. Mortlock Daniell of Ramsgate”, in The New British and Foreign Temperance Magazine, page 231:

     “The well-known Dr. Kitchener,” however, has discovered, that homebrewed beer is “liquid bread.”

   • 2015, Kaori O'Connor, The Never-ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting:

     As “liquid bread” (see Schiefenhovel and Macbeth 2011), the nutritional benefits of beer are commendable, with barley-beer containing more B vitamins and the essential amino acid lysine than barley bread.