| \BROH-mahyd, BROH-mid\ |
noun
1. a platitude or trite saying.
2. Chemistry. a. a salt of hydrobromic acid consisting of two elements, one of which is bromine, as sodium bromide, NaBr. b. a compound containing bromine, as methyl bromide. |
| Quotes |
There have been many remarks made about time, and life, and most of these have become bromides. What writers call clichés.
-- Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, 1956 |
| Origin |
| Bromide is a combination of bromo- (a combining form used in the names of chemical compounds that contain bromine) and -ide, a suffix used in chemical compounds. Some bromides were used as sediatives, giving rise to the metaphorical extension of the term in the early 1900s. |
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