Sentence examples for bit of poison from inspiring English sources

Eating it provides a tiny bit of poison that, like alcohol, primes the enzymes in your liver to deal better with any other poisons.

As one American diplomatic official based in the region put it, "on both sides, actually, the alliance had become a little bit of poison, and both sides were glad to see it end".

The great climaxes of sounds are acheived in side streets, as in West 45th Street, beneath our window, where occasional stoppages take place-the pangs of congestion increas ng till every horn is going-a united delirious scream of hate, every decibel charged with a tiny bit of poison.

They're all poison in one sense, but we need a little bit of poison.

If you crave stripped-down, intellectually challenging theatre that burns with passion, intelligence, suspense and a bit of poison, this show is for you.

("Trust not the fox on the green heath, and not the Jew when he gives his oath," Stern recalls, marveling that this catchy bit of cultural poison sticks in his mind 70 years later).

Winning The X Factor can be a bit of a poisoned chalice.

The need to ensure Stewart has nothing to worry about once he returns in September has left Oliver with a bit of a poisoned chalice.

Next, visitors test their taste buds with a bit of bread dipped in poison, both of which are found throughout the room on black and white pedestals.

Here she was depending on the loyalty of her fans to understand the joke — one bit of choreography had her poisoning a guy with an apple — but also exercising the top-level skills that have propelled her dogged rise to the top.

When a former teacher suggests to Edmund that his family might be better off without his "socially useless" ailing father, the boy dutifully takes this backdated bit of Nazi ideology to heart and poisons the old man.