transcription, транскрипция: [ broʊmaɪd ]
( bromides)
1.
Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
...a dose of bromide.
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2.
A bromide is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. ( FORMAL )
The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.
= platitude
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