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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn 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:

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throw dirt enough, and some will stickIf enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say Rate it:

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BIBObulk in/bags out ; designates a type of bulk carrier that takes in bulk cargo, and is equipped to bag it, to provide bagged cargo for disembarkmentRate it:

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Bottle of DogNewcastle Brown AleRate it:

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chestnutOf a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.Rate it:

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chestnutA reddish-brown horse.Rate it:

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emporter ses cliques et ses claquesTo clear off, bag and baggage.Rate it:

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il a éventé (or, vendu) la mècheHe has let the cat out of the bag; He has blown the gaff.Rate it:

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let's go brandonMade famous during the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at the Talladega Speedway in Alabama, after Brandon Brown lands his first career win.Rate it:

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loose changeCoins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag.Rate it:

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potato sackA heavy-duty, reusable, burlap bag.Rate it:

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revenir bredouille(of sportsmen) To return with an empty bag; To have made an unsuccessful attempt; To return disappointed.Rate it:

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sewer ratbrown rat (Rattus norvegicus)Rate it:

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toute la boutique (pop.)The whole show (i.e. a thing and everything connected with it); The whole boiling; The whole bag of tricks.Rate it:

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