a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

谚语

英文释义

谚语
  1. An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.
    — One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."

词形变化

a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down alternative

词源

From the Sherman Brothers' 1964 song "A Spoonful of Sugar".
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