10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUGAR THE PILL»
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sugar the pill in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions
Sugar the pill Make something unpleasant easier to accept.* Suit their book Be
acceptable.* Sun is over the yardarm A time when it is socially acceptable to be
drinking alcoholic drinks.* Sunday best The smartest set of clothes a person ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2004
2
Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-linguistic Model of ...
Consider the following variants of swallow a bitter pill and the conceptually
corresponding expression sugar the pill (make and unpleasant situation more
acceptable): (112) a. Someone he loved more than he loved her, which was a
hard pill ...
3
Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... putting ofl the operation. PILL sugar the pill make something which is
unpleasant seem less so I shall sugar the pill by sending Steve on a week 's paid
holiday before I serve him the notice. go from pillar to post from one place to
another; 351.
4
Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
SUGAR PILL See Sugar. SUGARPLUM See Plum. SUGAR SHACK See Cough
Syrup. SUGAR SUBSTITUTE See Saccharine (adj.). SUGAR SYRUP See Cough
Syrup. SUGAR THE PILL See Sugar. SUMMER SAUSAGE See Sausage Dog.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
5
The Effective Manager: Management skills for high performance
Don't sugar the pill at the end. Summarise key motivational points and then key
developmental points only. Let your message land. · What are your top tips for
giving effective feedback? First, deliver the motivational feedback (what went well
).
6
'Closing
the Gap': American Postmodern Fiction in Germany, ...
Donkers, Jan. 197o. ' Een aardige Amerikaanse schrijver.' [Richard Brau- tigan.
In Watermelon Sugar; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster; Trout Fishing
America.] De Volkskrant 25 APRIL 197o. Donkers, Jan. 1971. ' Richard Brautigan
...
7
Collocations in a Learner Corpus
... elements of a verb-noun idiom (such as 'secret' for beans or 'unpleasant news
or unpleasant measure' for pill), these "senses" are restricted in use to either one
or at most very few verbs (sugar the pill, for example, is also possible). In kick ...
8
New British Philosophy:
The Interviews
... much room for the philosophy. Another genre is biography, which is a further
way to sugar the pill, telling the life story of philosophers and slipping in the
philosophy along the way. The two outstanding exponents of that 278 Nigel
Warburton.
Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, 2002
9
Concise English Dictionary
sugar of lead lead acetate, sweet and poisonous, used as a mordant for dyeing
and printing textiles, and as a drier for paints and varnishes; sugar the pill to
compensate somewhat for an unpleasant prospect, unwelcome imposition, etc.
10
The St. James's Magazine
My aunt spoke as if she had to administer a disagreeable dose, which, for her
sake as well as mine, had better be got down by coaxing. But she only made bad
matters worse by trying to sugar the pill ; she only weakened her own arguments.
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUGAR THE PILL»
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sugar the pill is used in the context of the following news items.
Don't sugar the pill, patients want straight talking doctors
But a new study has suggested most people do not want their doctors to sugar the pill, but just 'tell it to them straight' without offering false hope or optimism. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
'Excellent' Primark figures sugar the pill for AB Foods
The performance, which features a rise of 4.5 per cent when new store space is stripped out, helped the conglomerate offset sharply lower sales in its sugar ... «Herald Scotland, Sep 14»
No way to sugar the pill on obesity
While it represents progress that the recommended daily allowance for sugar is to be lowered (Guideline on sugar "should be cut by half", 27 June), ... «The Guardian, Jun 14»
Doctors like to 'sugar the pill'
Doctors like to 'sugar the pill'. NEARLY every doctor in Britain has dished out placebo treatments to patients, often just to just reassure them, research has ... «Express.co.uk, Mar 13»
Primark sugars the pill for Associated British Foods
A strong performance at cut-price retailer Primark has helped sugar the pill for ... The firm told shareholders that it expects profits at its sugar business to fall this ... «This is Money, Dec 12»
