water down
掺水,浇水,浇灌,冲淡
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- : to dilute or weaken with water
- : to modify or adulterate, esp so as to omit anything harsh, unpleasant, or offensiveto water down the truth
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Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.