soften / cushion the blow

soften / cushion the blow to make something unpleasant easier for someone to accept缓和打击:•A reduction in interest rates would soften the blow of tax increases.减息对增税带来的打击将起到缓和的作用。

• MeV
• run out the clock
• interservice
• vector
• Babuyan
• casuarina
• too close / near for comfort
• baronets of Ireland
• automatic short-circuiter
• scenographers
• desistence
• vindicating
• ring the changes
• Samis
• bargain price
• like streaks(或 a streak)
• have power over
• compliance constant
• duplicands
• and another thing
• compound lenses
• sequestrators
• weathercoat
• propylene glycol
• idioplasm
• herdsmen
• woodman
• accountant
• directional coupler
• Kindred Spirits
• everyways
• netlayer
• kick over the ladder
• know the time of day
• hypothalamuss
• smell a rat
• sucky
• lightface
• sweat off
• moderationism
• fabulous
• drug addict
• mawkishnesses
• well-oiled
• toxic edema
• Hughes, James Langston
• blaze a trail in
• Foley
• hang on to
• East Village
• motoscafi
• pamphletize
• elephant-ear
• in the pound
• calcium carbide
• Ural
• standby block
• gork
• Books of the Bible
• whimsically
• summer stocks
• halomethane
• gross domestic product
• busy signal
• stainably
• S.Ca.
• gravitational constant
• offerest
• giddying
• sensitisers
• the cradle of the deep
• enthronings
• Travers, Morris William
• exact chi-squared test
• autacoidal
• Iscariots
• slope stake
• proamnion
• VCRs
• minuted
• one gulp
• timber rattlesnakes
• obloquys
• somalias
• Darren
• long-liner
• fashion coordinator
• half carry
• curettes
• war with
• unlawful
• freezing range
• grab-all
• bolster
• luminosity classes
• Darzens'procedure
• jailhouse lawyer
• Northern Crown
• Argand diagram
• get on the right/wrong side of sb