beat the wife

Pronounced Bate-the-wife. Irish slang for Bulmers cider. The name refers to the Irish urban legend that lads would go to the pub, get lashed off Bulmers and go home and kick the shit out of their wives. This was a severe image problem for bulmers in it’s infancy

Shur Jaysus,of course he’d be drinking beat the wife

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