Brewer's: Alms-drink

Another's leavings; for alms consists of broken bread and the residue of drink. It is also applied to the liquor which a drinker finds too much, and therefore hands to another.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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