A 'cocktail hour' [=an hour when people drink cocktails] preceded the dinner.
The disease is being treated with a 'cocktail of' powerful drugs.
a dangerous 'cocktail of' chemicals
(..) Oh. I'll just take one last sip. Ah. Okay, how about this for an invention-- slightly... bigger cocktail umbrellas. How is that a new invention? I don't know, all Apple does is change the size of things and we keep buying them. It's true. I like my giant iPad (..)2016 TvShow: The Big Bang Theory Title: The Positive Negative Reaction Season: 9 Episode 16