blue pill

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blue pill¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Each NFT will cost $50 and be embedded, via blockchain smart contracts, with the ability to let the owner of the NFT choose the red pill or blue pill, in keeping with the franchise’s central premise, a couple of weeks later.

From Quartz

The blue pill would return him to his normal life in the Matrix and help him forget he was living in a simulation.

From Time

Ah, the red pill and the blue pill, symbols that have lasted literal decades and become common parlance on the Internet to describe all manner of cultural, political and psychological phenomena.

From Time

The popular blue pill is the result of pure chance and one very observant nurse.

From Ozy

“He gave me a blue pill, which he said was an antihistamine,” said Chelan.

From The Daily Beast

The morphine produced such a deathly nausea that I could not take it, and the blue pill failed to relieve my constipation.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be given as Calomel or Blue pill, with or without Opium, and continued until it affects the mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

Blue pill contains the metal itself in a finely divided state, as well as a small quantity of the oxide.

From Project Gutenberg

In addition to the salts just mentioned, an occasional dose of blue pill will prove helpful.

From Project Gutenberg

Half a grain of calomel may be regarded as equivalent to two grains of grey powder or blue pill.

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