medicine chest
Britishnoun
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These early medicine chests — they talk to Donald Judd, they speak to life, they speak to death, they speak to poetry.
From New York Times
Indeed, the principal inflation remedy in the Fed’s medicine chest—raising interest rates—is ineffective against the most important drivers of inflation today.
From Los Angeles Times
The world’s medicine chest is on fire, and we don’t even know what’s inside it yet.
From New York Times
“Hold on, let me go to my medicine chest,” she replied.
From Los Angeles Times
“I don’t care about the effect anymore, up or down, so long as I’m never just straight. I steal pills from people’s medicine chests. Everyone has had a root canal or wisdom tooth extraction.”
From New York Times
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