Brewer's: Coke upon Littleton

Tent and brandy.

“Another ... sipping Coke upon Littleton, i.e. tent and brandy.” —Nichols: Illustrations of Literature (1743).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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