Caroline Tran
2020-07-27 05:07
Soften/cushion the blow American bare infinitive verb informal
Depending on user's liking, nouns such as impact and shock can be used instead of blow. When we say we want to soften/cushion the blow means that we want to make an unpleasant change easier to accept; to make one's disappointment less painful.
When she lost her cat, all the pictures they took together became a good memory that cushioned the blow.
She was fired but received a better opportunity not long after, which cushioned the blow.
To become better
When you experience extreme and undesirable situations, it is probably essential to take extreme actions
Manage to earn enough money to buy food and other essential things
Starting of the idiom is a verb, we need to conjugate tense for the verb.
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This idiom derives from the thought of reducing the damage force of one thing hitting another by surrounding or covering it with something soft.
Do you see anything wrong?
Used to allude that the last force, problem or burden which is seemingly minor and small causes a person, system or organisation to collapse or fail
Her husband's violent act last night was the straw that broke the donkey's back and she left him
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