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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cough mixture
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had taken a bottle of cough mixture with him but it hadn't helped much.
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cough mixture

n. A medicine to treat coughs, usually in liquid or syrup form.

Usage examples of "cough mixture".

He was about to commend Desdra on the efficacy of her cough mixture when a totally unprovoked tickle bent him double to cough.

Ginia asked Petiron privately after delivering another bottle of cough mixture for Merelan.

The Nurse of the Forest Sauvage sent a cough mixture, thirty dozen handkerchiefs all marked, and a pair of combinations with a double chest.

Garrick listened to the sounds of departure, the whicker of the horses outside on the driveway and Ada's voice reciting last minute instructions: I've put a bottle of cough mixture under your shirts, give it to Friulein as soon as you unpack.

In the time it took Sophie to sew ten more blue triangles Michael ran upstairs with lemon and honey, with a particular book, with cough mixture, with a spoon to take the cough mixture with, and then with nose drops, throat pastilles, gargle, pen, paper, three more books, and an infusion of willow bark.

Perhaps it is that McCarthy has labelled the cough mixture as the eye-wash, or sent an empty pillbox with an exhortation to take one every four hours.

They bespoke his mother's concern for his well-being: a long tarpaulin waterproof coat and a wide-brimmed hat of the same material, scarves and gloves, neckerchiefs and woollen socks, a dozen bottles of extract-of-lettuce cough mixture and another dozen of Dr.

Only in extreme emergencies did he allow himself a double dose of his cough mixture before retiring.

The housekeeper would dose this Molly-thing with bottles of patent cough mixture in vain.