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Kool-Aid
[kool-eyd]
a brand name for a powdered mix used to make a sugary, fruit-flavored drink.
noun
a drink made from this mix.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Kool-Aid1
Idioms and Phrases
drink the Kool-Aid, to support or believe in something in a blindly enthusiastic way.
A level-headed reporter, he didn’t drink the Kool-Aid on the tax issue.
Example Sentences
At the end of the day, everybody drinks the same Kool-Aid.
“A layperson may look at a 0.5 percent label and say, Wow, that’s like putting a Kool-Aid packet into a swimming pool, and I’m being ripped off,” she says, when “in actuality that could be, for that peptide, an efficacious level.”
Instead, the company is fast-tracking a soulless brand-based cash grab: a Kool-Aid movie.
Over the course of the plot, Matt, a cinephile, convinces the “Goodfellas” director to helm a movie based on Kool-Aid — except in Scorsese’s version, the brand is just a way to talk about the Jonestown massacre.
“Getting Martin Scorsese to do the Kool-Aid movie would be the happiest day of your life, objectively, and then firing him would be the worst day of your life. But you wouldn’t feel that about everybody.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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