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bromide
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synonyms: platitude ???
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Definition:1. a once very common OTC medical ingredient used in various compounds (especially potassium) as a sedative and headache remedy. In 1975 it was withdrawn from the US market.2. a conventional or trite saying; cliché
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You will find some sleeping stuff—trional and sulphonal tablets— a packet of bromide, bicarbonate of soda, aspirin.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.138 (1939)
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Neither suggestion nor bromide would have been effective in working our cure.
Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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her head dug in her soft pillows and her eyes felt the gentle weight of the bromide.
John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.470 (1952)
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it was a tablet of mild bromides— to anoint her nerves
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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The doctor sits down to the little table, and rubbing his forehead, prescribes bromide of potassium for Lizotchka, then makes his bow, and promising to look in again in the evening, departs. Vassya does not go to the office, but sits all day at his wife's feet.
Anton Chekhov. Love and Other Stories
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the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up thorugh what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, clichés, and bromides.
J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.98 (1955)
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