silly pill
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Noun edit
silly pill (plural silly pills)
- (humorous) A hypothetical pill that makes those who take it act or behave in a silly manner.
- You're all wound up today! Who gave you the silly pill?
- 2003, Thomas Kinkade with Nanette Kinkade and Larry Libby, The Many Loves of Parenting, page 133:
- They need to take a silly pill from time to time, and just let themselves get down on their children's level.
- 2004 January 9, Colorado Springs Gazette:
- The Republican Party must have taken a silly pill to think it will continue to have support from veterans and retirees while relentlessly assaulting ...
- 2007 November 9, “THEATER REVIEW: Laughs help bitter meds go down”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- This wildly inventive piece of social satire may go down like a big old silly pill. But after the madness and mayhem, "Meds" leaves an acidic aftertaste.