a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

短语

发音

/ə ˈspuːnfəl əv ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)ˌhɛlps ðə ˈmɛdɪsɪn ɡoʊ ˌdaʊn/

别名

a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

释义与例句

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    An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.

    2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, →ISBN, page 11, If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.

词源

From the Sherman Brothers' 1964 song "A Spoonful of Sugar".

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