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Dom Tuk | 10:17 Thu 01st Sep 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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How long ago and why did the phrase 'whisky chaser' originate.
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'Chaser', meaning a follow-up drink, is an Americanism and the earliest recorded use of it as such is in a newspaper of 1897. The reason why, of course, is as I suggested above...it follows something else, in much the same way as a hunter would follow his prey.

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