Swallowing
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"Common sense tells us that the things of this earth hardly exist, and that true reality is only in dreams. To digest natural (or artificial) happiness takes first of all the courage to swallow it down. And perhaps those worthy of happiness are precisely those for whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, has ever the effect of an emetic." --Charles Baudelaire in Les Paradis artificiels |
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- To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach.
- Try not to swallow too much toothpaste.
- The duck swallowed the frog.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagous which this entails.
- I swallowed nervously, wondering who was outside the window.
- To take in, to consume, to absorb or cause to disappear.
- Any extra money will be swallowed up by the mortgage repayments.
- To believe or accept.
- I find his excuses a little hard to swallow.
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Namesakes
- Swallow your pride
- The Big Swallow [1] (1901)
- A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine
- One swallow does not a summer make
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