We've found 23 phrases for urd (0.147 seconds):

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.

albatross »    A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.

Apa Sâmbetei »    Saturday's waters.

ark ruffian »    Rogues who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a quarrel with the passengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering, stripping, and throwing them overboard, etc. A species of badger.

blue moon »    Something absurd.

built like a tank »    Sturdy; exceptionally well constructed.

bulletproof »    Reliable, infallible, sturdy or error-tolerant.

bump off »    To kill, especially to murder.

faith will move mountains »    Belief in oneself (read sometimes as belief in God) can help one overcome any hurdle in life's path.

get away with murder »    To do something bad or illegal and not be punished.

murder will out »    A murderer will always be discovered.

murder will out »    Secrets or hidden crimes will eventually be exposed or discovered.

off the hook »    Relieved of a duty, burden, responsibility, or pressure.

off-the-wall »    Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd.

play the race card »    Mark Fuhrman, Murder in Brentwood p.153.

Like Phrases.net?  Why won't you tell a friend about us?