subs. phr. (common).—Beer and ginger-beer.
1853. REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, I. 118. ‘He taught me to grill a devil.’ ‘Grill a devil,’ groaned Miss Virginia. ‘And to make SHANDY-GAFF and sherry cobbler, and brew bishop and egg flip: oh, its capital!’
1864. B. HEMYNG, Eton School Days, v. Chorley took him up the river and inducted him into the mysteries of SHANDY-GAFF at Surly.
1871. Chambers’s Journal, 9 Dec., 771. I am sitting with him drinking SHANDY-GAFF.
1872. Fun, 10 Aug., ‘A Ditton Ditty.’ So let us quaff Our SHANDY-GAFF.
1880. M. COLLINS, Thoughts in my Garden, ii. 198. They bear about the same resemblance to real literature as SHANDY-GAFF to dry champagne.
