Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Bromide

bro-mide



noun :: A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation.



"She was so used to hearing Sellers lash the Philistine and hold forth on unappreciated merit that she could hardly believe the miracle when, in answer to a sympathetic bromide on the popular lack of taste in Art, Beverley replied that, as far as he was concerned, the public showed strong good sense." --Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville

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