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bromide

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bro=mide

CIDE DICTIONARY

bromiden. 
  •  A compound of bromine with a positive radical.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    "The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase “old bromide”.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bromide, n.
1 Chem. any binary compound of bromine.
2 Pharm. a preparation of usu. potassium bromide, used as a sedative.
3 a trite remark.

Idiom
bromide paper a photographic printing paper coated with silver bromide emulsion.

THESAURUS

bromide

abstraction, banality, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, lieu commun, locus communis, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, stereotyped saying, sweeping statement, tag, tired cliche, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale

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