Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water / idiom :

First Page Mentioned (By Name) : ch. “The Homefront” – pg. 130

A common colloquialism that became an idiom, Don't Drink the Water comes from a biological fact that drinking water in different areas contains different microbes, and those new microbes will make a person sick if they don't prepare. It's a piece of common sense, that people tend to forget when they are thirsty and decide to reach for that glass of water. As such, it became an idiom that basically means: don't forget your basic common sense rules of travel, stay safe, don't do anything dangerous, etc...

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