I found this little jewel in Martin Fowler's recent post OneLanguage
... a jigger of 80 proof ugliness ...
Check the post for the full context if you need to know what is a jigger of 80 proof ugliness, but this phrase, for whatever reason, gave me large amounts of joy just now.
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