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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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ace of spades »
The playing card belonging to the spades suit and featuring one pip.
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albatross »
A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
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albatross »
Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
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all along »
The entire time; always.
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all the way to Egery and back »
The long way; a roundabout route; a long distance to travel.
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along about »
Approximately; at around some time.
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along the lines »
In a general direction or manner.
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angle for farthings »
To beg out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
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around Robin Hood's barn »
The long way around; a roundabout or circuitous route.
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as long as »
Depending upon some condition or requirement; provided that; if, assuming; so long as.
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as long as »
The same length as.
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as long as »
While; for some period of time.
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assume the mantle »
To take on a specific role or position, along with any associated responsibilites.
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