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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down	An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.	Rate it: (4.00 / 5 votes)
dick munch	idiot, foolish person.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
drool bucket	A person with low intelligence or no common sense; an idiot.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
glipe	In Northern Ireland a 'glipe' means 'idiot'	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
idiot box	Television.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
idiot light	Any warning light or indicator on the dashboard of a car, designed to alert the driver of problems, such as the parking brake being on or the oil being low.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
idiot mittens	Mittens connected by yarn or string running through one sleeve, along the back and out the other sleeve of a coat, to prevent the mittens becoming lost. Generally worn by small children.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il est bête à manger du foin	He is a perfect idiot.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shit for brains	An idiot; a stupid person.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
睬你都傻	I'd be an idiot if I cared about what you said; I don't care	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)