beer o'clock
nounUK /ˌbɪə(ɹ)əˈklɒk/ · US /ˌbɪɹ əˈklɑk/
- Pack an esky with ice-cold bottles of Cooper's Green Label and head down to Holloways Beach, just north of Cairns, around beer o'clock on a Friday afternoon.1999 February 22, Christopher Somerville, The Observer:
- He let her go and stood up. "I also believe it's beer o'clock. You want some iced tea?"1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN; Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, →ISBN, page 84:
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- One big rule that we never ever break is to open a can of ale before beer o'clock. Luckily this can be anytime between 1000 and 1300 hours and woe-betide anyone on watch who forgets to waken the other at this crucial time of day.2006, Arthur J. Binks, “Santa Cruz”, in Wine, Women and Sailing, Cambridge: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 89:
- When Hal woke up he decided it was beer o'clock and had the girls' permission to wander down the road for a few pints before tea.2013, Dave Lewis, chapter 62, in Raising Skinny Elephants, [Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales]: Ponty Press, →ISBN, page 231:
- Questioner: What time is it? Answerer: It's beer o'clock.
- Calling at Stalybridge, I cast one eye at the refreshment rooms and one eye at my watch, but 'beer o'clock' it isn't! Besides, I have a long way to travel!2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:
- Related terms
- the sun is over the yardarm, o-dark-thirty, wine o'clock