| 单词 | bread pill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread pill bread pill n. a pill or pellet made by compressing bread or breadcrumbs.Pills of this kind were formerly sometimes used medically as a placebo. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun] > pellet of bread bread pill1752 1752 T. Simson Inq. Vital & Animal Actions i. iv. 76 Bread pills, taken with a confidence that they were mercurial, have procured a salivation. 1853 H. Mayhew Lett. left at Pastrycook's vi. 37 It is considered ‘rare fun’, and thought just as harmless as throwing bread-pills at one another when the mistress's back is turned. 1946 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. iv. 10/4 They roll bread pills under their fingers as they listen with a fixed smile to the man in the next chair. 2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Mar. 2 It was once accepted practice to use placebos in the form of water injections or a bread pill covered in sugar (pillula panis). < as lemmas |
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