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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.

amateur hour »    A situation or activity in which the participants show a lack of skill, sound judgment, or professionalism.

blow up »    To explode something or somebody or destroy something or injure or kill somebody by explosion.

brown thumb »    Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener.

brush up »    To review; to improve an existing but rusty or under-developed skill.

bump off »    To kill, especially to murder.

curiosity killed the cat »    One should not be curious about things that can be dangerous.

dead men tell no tales »    Once someone is dead, they can no longer communicate, hence killing someone is the best way to keep him/her quiet.

do in »    To kill or end.

finish off »    To kill.

go through the mill »    To experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

green thumb »    A natural skill for gardening.

green thumb »    A person with this skill.

hatchet man »    A professional killer.

have a green thumb »    A person with a green thumb, a natural skill for gardening.

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