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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.

be left holding the baby »    To be left with the responsibility of resolving a problem.

drag »    To move a mouse cursor while holding down a button on the mouse, often to move something on the screen.

hand in hand »    Holding or clasping hands.

hold up one's end »    I'm holding up my end and you had better hold up yours.

holding pattern »    A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.

holding pattern »    Any failure to advance; useless or unproductive activity.

hot potato »    A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.

leave somebody holding the bag »    To abandon somebody, leaving the responsibility or blame.

mince words »    To restrain oneself in a conversation by withholding some comments or using euphemisms.

on the bubble »    Holding the last qualifying position with qualification still in progress, and thus liable to lose that position.

throw down »    To cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully.

tooth and nail »    Viciously; with all one’s strength or power; without holding back..

with bated breath »    "holding one's breath".

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