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bromide
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bromide as in:  same old political bromides

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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)
  • 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)
  • That may be a bromide, boys, but that's how I feel.†  (source)
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  • Kate got up from her bed and took a heavy dose of bromide.†  (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)
  • You will find some sleeping stuff—trional and sulphonal tablets—a packet of bromide, bicarbonate of soda, aspirin.†  (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)
  • Why not try two tabloids of bromide dissolved in a glass of water at bedtime?†  (source)
  • Words and wind and self-serving 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)
  • Only so much; the sanctimonious bromides about still being alive grew stale and bitter with time.†  (source)
  • Did you take your bromide last night, Colin?†  (source)
  • She thought suddenly of those modern college-infected parasites who assumed a sickening air of moral self-righteousness whenever they uttered the standard bromides about their concern for the welfare of others.†  (source)
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