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  • n  a drink made of beer and lemonade

  • He drank a "shandy" (beer and lemonade) and sang a Brahms lullaby.
  • But Blaiberg was eating like a horse and demanding something stronger to drink than his shandy of beer and lemonadehe wanted the beer straight.
  • But though spectators decorously booed Dawkins' unsportsmanlike lapse, there was wide rejoicing over the post-match shandy (a concoction of beer and lemonade) that the hitherto .
Quotes

  • Jens Lehmann in AFP
    That evening, I drank only half a Radler (a beer and lemonade shandy) and then mineral water after that,Lehmann told Bild newspaper. "I drove myself home later on."
  • Ed Balls in Telegraph.co.uk
    When was 16 or 17, I would have a small glass of wine at lunch on a Sunday or a shandy or a Babycham at Christmas,says Mr Balls. "That's fine - a lot of parents do that and that's not where the problem lies; it's where parents are allowing...
  • Samuel Johnson in guardian.co.uk
    Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last,said Dr Johnson, wrong for once.

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