bromide
b roh mahyd
- n any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs
- n a trite or obvious remark
- So many people are taking bromides on their own account, so many doctors are prescribing bromides for their nervous patients, that bromide intoxication has become comparatively .
- So what future awaits "spread the wealth," a similar bromide uttered by Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber at a rally in Ohio? The history of this expression can also be traced to a .
- But the silver bromide outside the latent image remains soluble.