Intoxicating liquor/ the bitter drop
A nickname for an intoxicating alcoholic beverage (from the original meaning of the word).
("They said about him, concerning the angel of death, whose head is full of eyes, at the hour of the patient's departure, he stands over his head with his sword drawn in his hand and a drop of bitter wine hanging from it, so that when a patient sees him, he trembles and opens his mouth and throws it into his mouth, from which he dies" - Avoda Zara 22b, and so: "Like a drop of bitter wine - like a drop of bitter wine "The dripping from the rim of the bowl" - Rashi Isaiah from Tu, and so on: "A woman who is tender and well-fed, whose face and her forehead and her eyes are always yellow from her love for the bitter drop" - Bialik/Aryeh Baal Guf, 3, 16)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הַטִּפָּה הַמָּרָה
Definition (Hebrew)
כִּנּוּי לְמַשְׁקֶה אַלְכּוֹהוֹלִי מְשַׁכֵּר (בַּמָּקוֹר הַמַּשְׁמָעוּת כִּפְשׁוּטָהּ).
("אָמְרוּ עָלָיו עַל מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת, שֶׁכֻּלּוֹ מָלֵא עֵינַיִם, בִּשְׁעַת פְּטִירָתוֹ שֶׁל חוֹלֶה, עוֹמֵד מֵעַל מְרַאֲשׁוֹתָיו וְחַרְבּוֹ שְׁלוּפָה בְּיָדוֹ וְטִפָּה שֶׁל מָרָה תְּלוּיָה בּוֹ, כֵּיוָן שֶׁחוֹלֶה רוֹאֶה אוֹתוֹ מִזְדַּעְזֵעַ וּפוֹתֵחַ פִּיו וְזוֹרְקָהּ לְתוֹךְ פִּיו, מִמֶּנָּה מֵת"- עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה כ ע"ב, וְכֵן:"כְּמַר מִדְּלִי- כְּטִפָּה מָרָה הַמְּטַפְטֶפֶת מִשּׁוּלֵי הַדְּלִי"-רָשִׁ"י יְשַׁעְיָהוּ מ טוּ, וְכֵן:"אִשָּׁה כְּרַסְתָּנִית וּמְפֻטָּמָה,שֶׁפָּנֶיהָ וְחָטְמָהּ וְעֵינֶיהָ מַצְהִיבִין תָּמִיד-מֵאַהֲבָתָהּ לַטִּפָּה הַמָּרָה"- בְּיָאלִיק/אַרְיֵה בַּעַל גּוּף, ג, טז)