WordNet
n. medicine in the form of a syrup that has a calming effect
Usage examples of "soothing syrup".
Brother Ambrose, still voiceless, essayed speech and achieved only a painful wheeze, before Brother Cadfael, who was anointing his patients throat afresh with goose-grease, and had a soothing syrup of orpine standing by, laid a palm over the sufferers mouth and ordered silence.
Brother Ambrose, still voiceless, essayed speech and achieved only a painful wheeze, before Brother Cadfael, who was anointing his patient's throat afresh with goose-grease, and had a soothing syrup of orpine standing by, laid a palm over the sufferer's mouth and ordered silence.
A soothing word here and there, being careful not to overplay the soothing syrup.
He even threw in a small bottle of soothing syrup which, no doubt, he would have had to throw out in the alley before long anyway.
She snorted again, and the ancestor, who always knows what the book of etiquette would advise, came across with the soothing syrup.
Since the Expansionist Party was a minority party, being merely the largest fraction of a coalition of several parties held together by the leadership and personality of John Joseph Bonforte, I had to stand in for him and peddle soothing syrup to those prima donnas.