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liquid courage for your tongue, swished by people too proud to floss
means A liquid you swish around your mouth to freshen breath and kill bacteria, then spit out without swallowing.
from A plain compound of "mouth" and "wash," both rooted in Old English ("muth" and "wascan"). The thing it names is far older than the word: ancient peoples gargled wine, vinegar, and herbal brews, but the snappy English term for a bottled rinse is a much later, no-nonsense coinage — your mouth, washed, exactly as it says on the tin.
- prohibition trick
- sold as medicine to dodge alcohol bans
- listerine origin
- first marketed as floor cleaner and surgical antiseptic
- invented disease
- ads coined halitosis to scare buyers
- alcohol burn
- that sting is up to 26 percent booze
- kills good too
- wipes out helpful mouth bacteria with the bad
listerine — antiseptic mouthwash first formulated in 1879 as a surgical disinfectant, now global market leader
scope — blue minty mouthwash launched by procter & gamble in 1987, competing with listerine in the us market
cepacol — cetylpyridinium chloride-based mouthwash with numbing properties, developed in the 1940s for sore throats