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bromide
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bromide as in:  same old political bromides

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  • 'Where there's smoke there must be fire,' I believe is the bromide.†  (source)
  • That may be a bromide, boys, but that's how I feel.†  (source)
  • Kate got up from her bed and took a heavy dose of bromide.†  (source)
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  • He arose at the crack of dawn, when he began to take his secret medicines: potassium bromide to raise his spirits, salicylates for the ache in his bones when it rained, ergosterol drops for vertigo, belladonna for sound sleep.†  (source)
  • Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, cliches, and bromides.†  (source)
  • Next he proceeded to the many new discoveries which were being made — Dr. Laycock's bromide therapy for epileptics, for example, which should put paid to a great many erroneous beliefs and superstitions; the investigation of the structure of the brain; the use of drugs in both the induction and the alleviation of hallucinations of various sorts.†  (source)
  • He drank heavily and took mood-altering drugs called bromides.†  (source)
  • Why not try two tabloids of bromide dissolved in a glass of water at bedtime?†  (source)
  • Someone saw him shivering with fever and informed the Captain, who, fearing a case of cholera, left the party with the ship's doctor, and the doctor took the precaution of sending Florentino to the quarantine cabin with a dose of bromides.†  (source)
  • Violet McKisco collapsed and Mrs. Abrams took her to her room and gave her a bromide whereupon she fell comfortably asleep on the bed.†  (source)
  • Words and wind and self-serving bromides.†  (source)
  • They poured more coffee into him and (on the advice of Clif Clawson, who wasn't exactly sure what the effect might be but who was willing to learn) they fed him a potassium bromide tablet.†  (source)
  • Only so much; the sanctimonious bromides about still being alive grew stale and bitter with time.†  (source)
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