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proverb
Drinking hard alcoholic beverages, such as liquor, before light alcoholic beverages, such as beer and wine, will not lead to a hangover, while the reverse order will.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Of uncertain origin. Based on the common misconception that the order in which different kinds of alcoholic beverages are consumed necessarily causes hangovers or other ill effects.
