subs. phr. (common).—Spirits and cold water without sugar. Cf., CIDER AND; also HOT WITH.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘A Lay of St. Gengulphus,’ p. 156 (ed. 1862).

        On the fire, too, she pops some nice mutton-chops,
  And she mixes a stiff glass of ‘COLD WITHOUT.’

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  1853.  BULWER-LYTTON, My Novel. I laugh at fame. Fame, sir! not worth a glass of COLD WITHOUT.

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