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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.
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babes in the wood »
Criminals in the stocks, or pillory.
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bitter pill »
Something unpleasant that must be accepted or endured.
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don't cry over spilled milk »
Alternative spelling of don't cry over spilt milk.
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double Dutch »
Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.
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from pillar to post »
To another; hither and thither, to and fro.
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mop up »
To clean with a mop; especially to clean up a spill or mess.
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on the pill »
Using oral contraceptives.
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run off »
To pour or spill off or over.
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spill one's guts »
To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.
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spill one's seed »
To masturbate or to ejaculate when the penis has been withdrawn from one's partner.
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spill over »
To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow.
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spill the beans »
To reveal a secret; to disclose.
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take a spill »
To trip or fall.
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take the red pill »
To understand the world in its previously unknown reality.
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