Name your poison.

Name your poison.
What'll it be? & Name your poison. & What'll you have? & What's yours?
Inf. What do you want to drink?; What do you want?; How can I serve you? (Typically said by a bartender or bar waiter or waitress.) •

Tom: What'll it be, friend? Bill: I'll just have a ginger ale, if you don't mind.

Waitress: What'll you have? Bob: Nothing, thanks.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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