Sugar the pill
Make something unpleasant more palatable, as in There would be no Christmas bonus this year but management sugared the pill by giving workers extra vacation time over the holidays. [ Late 1700s ]
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noun 1. a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- Sugar-tongs
noun, (usually used with a plural verb) 1. small tongs used for serving cubed sugar. noun See sugar nippers
- Sugar-tree
noun, Chiefly South Midland U.S. 1. a sugar maple.
- Sugary
adjective 1. of, containing, or resembling sugar. 2. sweet; excessively sweet. 3. honeyed; cloying; deceitfully agreeable: sugary words of greeting. adjective 1. of, like, or containing sugar 2. containing too much sugar; excessively sweet 3. deceptively pleasant; insincere
- Suger
noun 1. 1081–1151, French ecclesiastic and statesman, who acted as adviser to Louis VI and regent (1147–49) to Louis VII. As abbot of Saint-Denis (1122–51) he influenced the development of Gothic architecture