Death in the Afternoon
Noun
Meaning
Death in the Afternoon (plural Death in the Afternoons)
An alcoholic cocktail made with absinthe, champagne, and sometimes a twist of lemon.
Examples
He described the incident in his non-fiction book Death in the Afternoon : "I remember that after we searched quite thoroughly for the complete dead we collected fragments".
The park also has a restaurant – Death in the Afternoon.
Death in the Afternoon contains some of Hemingway’s finest writing and reflects his belief that bullfighting was “of great tragic interest, being literally of life and death”.